135 Best Loyalty Quotes and Sayings for Healthy Relationship

Loyalty in relationships is a key factor for a healthy relationship. Partners need to show loyalty to each other by providing support and care.

When we’re in love, it’s natural for us to want to be there for each other whenever we need it, even if that means spending money on gifts, outings, or even holidays. But it’s important not to take advantage of that person’s generosity or put too much pressure on them.

Loyalty can be broken when the person who was supporting you doesn’t reciprocate the feeling. That’s why it’s important not to feel obligated or pressure others into doing something they don’t want to do just because you want them too. Mutual respect is vital.

Here is a list of 135 quotes and sayings that can help you build a healthy relationship


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


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


“You don’t earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.” ― Jeffrey Gitomer


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


“It’s not about who is real in your face it’s about who stays loyal behind your back.”


“You don’t love someone put of loyalty… nor out of sympathy, either.” – Jae Hee


“Loyalty is privilege, not a right…. I don’t owe you shit but I do stuff because I care not because I have to some people forget that.”


“Without trust, there can be no loyalty – and without loyalty, there can be no true growth.” ― Fred Reichheld


Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. ― Neil Kinnock


Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. ― Woodrow T. Wilson


“Love and loyalty run deeper than blood.” ― Richelle Mead


“Be very selective when it comes to choosing friends. People now-a-days don’t know the true meaning of friendship and loyalty.”


Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue — perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one. ― Milan Kundera


“Loyalty is everything, but everything isn’t loyal.” ― Terrance McAllister


“Look out for those who look out for you. Loyalty is everything.” — Conor McGregor


“Never be a slave of loyalty to unloyal people.” ― Shannon Alder


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


Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use. ― Paulo Coelho (more Paulo Coelho quotes)


Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard. ― Confucius


“Justice, without loyalty, is a vicious formalism.” – Josiah Royce


“Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer care.”


“The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.” ― Norman Thomas


Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. ― Mark Twain


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


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


I’ll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty. ― Samuel Goldwyn


Loyalty is a characteristic trait. Those who have it, give it free of charge. ― Ellen J. Barrier


“Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.” – Samuel Butler


“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


 “If you cheat on a girl that’s willing to do anything for you, you actually cheated yourself out of true loyalty.”


“Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.” – Josiah Royce


“A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.” ― Robert Benchley


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


“Loyalty is the strongest glue which makes a relationship last for a life time.” – Mario Puzo


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


“Loyalty is a characteristic trait. Those who have it, give it free of charge.” – Ellen J. Barrier


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


“The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty … a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne


“Their something wrong with your character if opportunity controls your loyalty.”


“Distance doesn’t matter if two hearts are loyal to each other.”


Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. ― Hannah Arendt


“Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.” — Richard Wright


“Loyalty will always be found in the things you regret because it mattered.” ― Shannon Alder


“Loyalty is a continuous phenomenon, you don’t score points for past action.” ― Natasha Pulley


“As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.” – Margaret Atwood


“Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.” – Bryant H. McGill


“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.”


“The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they’re your friends, you can do no wrong.” – Dick Van Patten


“Loyalty means sticking with people you love through hard times. It doesn’t mean giving someone a license to treat you like nothing and you’ll stick around no matter what. Big difference.” – Doe Zantamata


“One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.” – Simone Elkeles


“The person who always says he is loyal is actually the most disloyal of all.”


“Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it has left you.”


“Their loyalty end’s where the benefits stop.” ― Surgeo Bell


“Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.” – Ada Velez-Boardley


“Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I’ve got people up here who I’m really tight with, we’ve made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I’ve got people in my corner I can trust.” – Jonathan Brown


“Blood makes you related, loyalty makes you family.”


“Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice.


“Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.” – Thomas Cochrane


“Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind.” — Waris Dirie


“All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.” – John Barth


“Love and loyalty runs deeper than blood.” ― Richelle Mead


“I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.” – Richard E. Grant


Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than loyalty. ― Cicero


“Respect is earned. Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.”


“Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.” – Edwin Louis Cole


“You cannot get me to be disloyal to a friend. You just can’t do it. Loyalty is a part of what I live by. I didn’t say I was going to be loyal to my friend because he was right. I’m going to be loyal to my friend because he’s my friend.” – Jim Brown


“My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.” – Fetty Wap


“Loyalty means I am down with you whether you are wrong or right, but I will tell you when you are wrong and help you get it right.”


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


“She’s not looking for money, status or gifts. She desires honesty, loyalty, and being a man’s priority.”


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


“You’d be surprised how rare loyalty is, sometimes.” – Zoe Sugg


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


“Loyalty is the highest virtue taught by abusers, and used as a control tool.” – Dr. Bill Tollefson


“The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.” – Eric Felten


“Pride attracts the girl. Courage approaches the girl. Wisdom gets the girl. Strength puts up with the girl. Loyalty keeps the girl.”


“Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.” – Woodrow T. Wilson


The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.” – Morihei Ueshiba


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


“Love and loyalty runs deeper than blood.” – Richelle Mead


“Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard.” – Confucius


“Loyalty that is bought with money, may be overcome by money.” – Seneca


“Staying with someone that doesn’t appreciate you isn’t loyalty, it’s stupidity.”


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


 “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


Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong. ― Abraham Lincoln


Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point. ― Martin Luther


“Loyalty is not won by being first. It is won by being best.” – Stefan Persson


“Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.” – Andy Stanley


“A successful life is not an easy life. It is built on strong qualities, sacrifice, endeavor, loyalty and integrity.” – Grant D. Searchfield


“Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.” – Mark Twain


“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. It’s the biggest factor in everything I do.” – Tommy Mottola


“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


“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


“What you can’t buy is the loyalty that comes through our dedicated crewmembers.” – David Neeleman


“A woman’s loyalty is tested when her man has nothing. A man’s loyalty is tested when he has everything.”


“Some people aren’t loyal to you… They are loyal to their need of you… Once their needs change, so does their loyalty.”


“Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.” – Carles Kingsley


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


“Thank you for staying. Even when you had every reason to leave.”


“In friendship, you don’t need to find the most interesting one. Just find the most loyal one.”


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


Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have. ― Ernie Banks


An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country. ― Bainbridge Colby


Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness. ― Cheryl Cole


Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. ― Dean Koontz


“Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.” – Hannah Arendt


“I’m only loyal to people who are loyal to me and if you ain’t loyal to me well you ain’t getting no loyalty from me. That’s a fact.”


Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.  ― Andy Stanley


“I can’t expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.” – George C. Marshall


“Within the hearts of men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.” – Bryant H. McGill


Loyalty to an unjust cause is a perversion of honor. ― Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson


Within the hearts of men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success. ― Bryant H. McGill


“If you’re not loyal to your team, you can get by for a while, but eventually you will need to rely on their loyalty to you, and it just won’t be there.” – Tim Schafer


“Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.” – Harvey Mackay


Short Loyality Quotes


“Show me disloyalty, I’ll show you detachment.”


“My honor is my loyalty.” – Heinrich Himmler


“Fake people don’t surprise me anymore, loyal people do.”


“A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.” — Joyce Maynard


“Blessed is the one who has loyal friend.”


“Loyalty is from above, betrayal is from below.” – Bob Sorge


“Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero


“Even on bad terms loyalty shouldn’t change.”


“A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.” – Joyce Maynard


“The beauty of friendship is loyalty.” – Debasish Mrdiha


“Stay real, stay loyal or stay away from me.”


“Loyalty is rare. If you find it, keep it.”


“Nothing is more attractive than loyalty.”


“There’s no substitute for loyalty.” – James Lee Burke


“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway


“I don’t ask for much, just loyalty.”


“A man with no loyalty will leave you once the road darkens.”


“He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.”


“New friends are silver, but old friends are gold.”


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