Top 133 Loyal Friendship Quotes

Loyal Friendships: Are you one of the lucky one?

In a world bustling with fleeting connections, loyal friendships stand as radiant beacons of unwavering support, genuine understanding, and enduring companionship. Like the most cherished of treasures, these bonds are not simply formed; they are carefully nurtured over time, evolving into a tapestry woven with shared memories, heartfelt laughter, and unspoken empathy.

Loyal friendships are a sanctuary where vulnerabilities find solace and secrets are kept under lock and key. They are the soothing balm that mends the bruises of life's trials and tribulations, offering a refuge where one can be their truest self, unmasked and unafraid. In the realm of loyal friendships, judgment finds no harbor, and acceptance is as abundant as the air we breathe.

These connections are forged through the crucible of time, weathering storms and celebrating triumphs side by side. A loyal friend is a silent sentinel, standing sentinel in the darkest hours and cheering exuberantly in moments of joy. Their presence, like a comforting embrace, speaks volumes without uttering a single word.

Imagine the joy of sharing stories from years gone by, reminiscing about escapades that set hearts racing and eyes twinkling with shared mirth. A loyal friend's laughter is a melody that resonates deeply, harmonizing with your own in a symphony of camaraderie. Time spent together is like an artful dance, gracefully navigating the rhythms of life, perfectly attuned to each other's steps.

In a world that often feels impersonal and detached, loyal friendships remind us of the profound beauty that human connection can bring. Loyal friendships are not just connections; they are lifelines, threads that weave through the fabric of existence, binding souls together in a tapestry of loyalty, trust, and unwavering devotion. These friendships are the rare jewels that illuminate the path of life, guiding us through its twists and turns with a radiant light that only grows brighter with the passing of time.

If you have at least one such friend, consider yourself lucky!

Loyal Friendship Quotes

1. “We don't need a lot of friends; just a few who are willing to stay true to our friendship.” 

—Anonymous

2. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.” 

— Jane Austen

3. “Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”

― Tim Fargo

4. “There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.” 

— Jennifer Aniston

5. “The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.”

― Stephen Richards

6. “Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.” 

— Ernie Banks

7. “Reliability is a most wonderful virtue. We should cultivate it. We should be consistent about the things we do, so that others will know they can count on us. But more important, we want to be able to count on ourselves. The greatest pain is to have to disappoint one's self.” 

— Sterling W. Sill

8. “I don’t like to give up on people when they need someone not to give up on them.” 

— Carrol Bryant

9. “Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.”

― Stephen Richards

10. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.” 

— Socrates

11. “You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.” 

– Clarence Francis

12. “Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality.” 

— Abraham Lincoln

13. “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.” 

—John Lennon

14. “If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.” 

— Madeleine L'Engle

15. “Loyalty is a characteristic trait. Those who have it, give it free of charge.” 

— Ellen J. Barrier

16. “Don’t let your loyalty become slavery. If they don’t appreciate what you bring to the table, let them eat alone.” 

– Anonymous

17. “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” 

—Oscar Wilde

18. “When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.” 

—Helen Steiner Rice

19. “Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.” 

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

20. “You give loyalty, you’ll get it back. You give love, you’ll get it back.” 

—Tommy Lasorda

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21. “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” 

— J.R.R. Tolkien

22. “When you're alone is when you can count your friends.”

― Stephen Richards

23. “Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're willing to brave the shadows with you--and in your greatest moments--because they're not afraid to let you shine.” 

— Nicole Yatsonsky

24. “A good friend will always stab you in the front.” 

—Oscar Wilde

25. “Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.”

—Tahar Ben Jelloun

26. “Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down." 

— Grace Murray Hopper

27. “I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”

—Jon Katz

28. “Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.” 

— Neil Strauss

29. “You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.” 

— Jeffrey Gitomer

30. “You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?”

― Rebecca Wells

31. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them.” 

— Jim Morrison

32. “Never expect loyalty from a person that can’t give you honesty.” 

—Surgeo Bell

33. “To have a caring and committed heart toward someone—a heart so firm in its devotion as to sooner stop beating than neglect the object of its desire despite the person’s state of health, appearance, reputation, finances, troubles, or challenges — that, dear world, is love. It is a rare find.” 

— Richelle E. Goodrich

34. “True friendship is as rare as twin lotuses on a single stalk.”

― Lauren Bjorkman

35. “When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.” 

— Andy Andrews

36. “Don't make any promises that you can't keep.” 

— Ann Marie Aguilar

37. “If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.” 

— Criss Jami

38. “You will know a good friend when you are intoxicated with each other's company because everything becomes good in the world.”

― Donald Pillai

39. “If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.” 

— Selena Gomez

40. “Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.” 

— Woodrow Wilson

41. “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” 

— Zig Ziglar

42. “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” 

— William Shakespeare

43. “Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line. In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its origin is the human heart-the center of self-respect and human dignity. It is a force which leaps into being only when conditions are exactly right for it-and it is a force very sensitive to betrayal.” 

— Maurice R. Franks

44. “Be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, you build the trust of those who are present.” 

— Stephen Covey

45. “It is better to be faithful than famous.” 

— Theodore Roosevelt

46. “Love is a decision, not just an emotion. It is selfless, and a commitment.” 

—Lydia McLaughlin

47. “The only people I owe my loyalty to are those who never made me question theirs.” 

— Anonymous

48. “Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.” 

— Cheryl Cole

49. “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” 

— Ann Landers

50. “You cannot buy loyalty. You cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.” 

— Clarence Francis

51. “You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.” 

— Elizabeth Taylor

52. “Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.” 

— Bill Blackman

53. “Loyalty is a 24-hour proposition, 24/7. It’s not a part-time job.” 

— Jonathan Moyo

54. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” 

— Arnold H. Glasgow

55. “Loyalty is something you give regardless of what you get back, and in giving loyalty, you’re getting more loyalty, and out of loyalty flow other great qualities.” 

—Charles Jones

56. “If I’m going to play, it’s going to be 100-percent commitment.” 

— Brett Favre

57. “Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. The betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.” 

—Ziad K. Abdelnour

58. “Loyalty is my motto. When I give my word, you can trust me.” 

— Philippa Gregory

59. “Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.” 

— Ada Velez-Boardley

60. “A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.” 

— Harold Laski

61. “True friendship never questions what it costs you.” 

— Stephen Richards

62. “True loyalty is proven not proclaimed.” 

— Craig Groeschel

63. “I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades.” 

—Sylvester Stallone

64. “My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.” 

— Fetty Wap

65. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

66. “Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.” 

— Dean Koontz

67. “I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me—they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form any word or group ever could.” 

—Veronica Roth

68. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” 

— Elisabeth Foley

69. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” 

— Walter Winchell

70. “The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.” 

— Martina Navratilova

71. “Without loyalty there can be no love. Without loyalty there can be no family. Without loyalty there can be no friendship. Without loyalty there can be no commitment to community or country. And without those things, there can be no society.” 

— Eric Felten

72. “Loyalty is the strongest glue which makes a relationship last for a lifetime.” 

—Mario Puzo

73. “Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success.”  

—Taylor Lautner

74. “If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?” 

— Meghan Markle

75. “Loyalty is a continuous phenomenon, you don't score points for past action.” 

— Natasha Pulley

76. “It’s always too early to quit.” 

— Norman Vincent Peale

77. “It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.” 

— Zig Ziglar

78. “Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust, for me, are everything. It’s the core of what I’m about and what the people around me hopefully are about. It’s a certain thing that gives you a sense of security.” 

— Tommy Mottola

79. “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” 

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

80. “When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.” 

— C. Toni Graham

81. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” 

— Oprah Winfrey

82. “The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.” — Confucius

83. “True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.” 

—Michael Bassey Johnson

84. “They say that people are innately afraid of those who need them, they say that people are afraid of ‘clingy-ness,' afraid of attachment, afraid of being needed by another. But I beg to disagree. I believe that people, when looking at someone who is needy of them, see themselves and see their own fears and they go away because they can’t handle those fears; it’s their own neediness that they’re afraid of! They’re afraid to want and to need, because they’re afraid of loss and of losing, so when they see these things in another, that’s when they run away. Nobody is actually running away from other people; everybody is really running away from themselves!” 

— C. JoyBell

85. “Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than loyalty.” 

— Cicero

86. “There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.” 

— Ken Blanchard

87. “True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.” 

— Sadhu Vaswani

88. “Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.” 

— Christopher Hitchens

89. “[My mom told me] to always be loyal and treat someone how you want to be treated. Find someone that you can love and that's going to be your best friend.” 

— Paris Hilton

90. “Anyone can give you attention and compliments… but someone who loves you will give you that plus respect, honesty, trust, and loyalty.” 

—Charles Orlando

91. “Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.” 

—Napoleon Hill

92. “The whole point of loyalty was not to change: stick with those who stuck with you.” 

— Larry McMurtry

93. “Loyalty. Is it something only dogs know? When I think of it, I wonder if I would rather have it than love. Whereas love is often an over-used word and an unpredictable feeling, the other is nothing but dependability.” 

— Donna Lynn Hope

94. “If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.” 

— Elbert Hubbard

95. “Without commitment you cannot have depth in anything.” 

— Neil Strauss

96. “When you have things that are very important to you in life, when there are things you want to do and be - that takes work. It takes work to show up for your own story and show up for the dream and vision you have for yourself." 

— Kerry Washington

97. “We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” 

— Cornel West

98. “The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.” 

— Steve Hall

99. “The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.” 

— Rollo May

100. “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” 

— Marlene Dietrich

101. “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” 

—Anonymous

102. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” 

— Friedrich Nietzsche

103. “Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.” 

—Seneca The Younger

104. “There’s always a way – if you’re committed.” 

—Tony Robbins

105. “Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, but you and I know what this world can do. So let's make our steps clear so the other may see. And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.” ― Bruce Springsteen

106. “I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don’t ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.” 

— Lauren Conrad

107. “Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.” 

—Ada Velez-Boardley

108. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” 

— Helen Keller

109. “What I value most in my friends is loyalty.” 

— David Mamet

110. “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.” 

— Peter F. Drucker

111. “Those who don't know the value of loyalty can never appreciate the cost of betrayal.” 

— Anonymous

112. “Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.” 

— Paulo Coelho

113. “Exceeding expectations is where satisfaction ends and loyalty begins.” 

—Ron Kaufman

114. “But what are loyalty and caring really worth?” To me? Everything.” 

—Richelle Mead

115. “I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can’t get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That’s in friendship, that’s a deal, that’s a commitment. Don’t give me paper – I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that’s for life.” 

— Jerry Lewis

116. “There’s always a way – if you’re committed.” 

— Tony Robbins

117. “Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.” 

—Algernon Charles Swinburn

118. “And the strongest trust is built by the smallest actions, the keeping of the little promises. It is the constant truthfulness, the continued dependability, the remembrance of minor things, which most inspire confidence and faith.” 

— Walter Wangerin Jr.

119. “Real love has little to do with falling. It's a climb up the rocky face of a mountain, hard work, and most people are too selfish or too scared to bother. Very few reach the critical point in their relationship that summons the attention of the light and the dark, that place where they will make a commitment to love no matter what obstacles-or temptations- appear in their path.” 

— Stacey Jay

120. “Loyalty is what makes us trust, Trust is what makes us stay, Staying is what makes us love, and love is what gives us hope.” 

— Glenn van Dekken

121. “You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.” 

—Jeffrey Gitomer

122. “Our modern, rootless times do seem to be a particularly inhospitable environment for loyalty. We come and go so relentlessly that our friendships can't but come and go too. What sort of loyalty is there in the age of Facebook, when friendship is a costless transaction, a business of flip reciprocity.... Friendship held together by nothing more permanent than hyperlinks is hardly the stuff of selfless fidelity.” 

— Eric Felten

123. “It isn’t an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don’t know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.” 

—Megan Whaler Turner

124. “Loyalty isn't grey. It's black and white. You're either loyal completely, or not loyal at all.” 

— Sharnay

125. “Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.” 

—Paulo Coelho

126. “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”

— Misty Copeland

127. “Many people walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” 

—Eleanor Roosevelt

128. “We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.” 

— G.K. Chesterton

129. “Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.”  

—John Spence

130. “If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.” 

— J.R.R. Tolkien

131. “Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.” 

— Martin Luther

132. “A friend’s loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. But a true friend will forget that anger after a while, because their loyalty to their friend outweighs the memory of the disagreement.” 

—Matthew Reilly

133. “Loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I’ll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.” 

— General Colin Powell