#Loyalty Quotes

“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.”

“That which I would discoverThe law of friendship bids me to conceal.”

“Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.”

“A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.”

“My heart is ever at your service.”

“If thou wilt lend this money, lend it notAs to thy friends; for when did friendship takeA breed for barren metal of his friend?”

“I am not of that feather, to shake off my friend when he must need me”

“Such is my love, to thee I so belong,That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.”

“In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.”

“My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.”

“Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.”

“My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.”

“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.”

“Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.”

“O, where is loyalty?If it be banished from the frosty head,Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?”

“What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.”

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

“By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.”

“Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii”

“He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.”

“We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.”

“Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.”

“You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;But yet you draw not iron, for my heartIs true as steel: leave you your power to draw,And I shall have no power to follow you.”

“As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).”

“Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party”

“Who is here so vile that will not love his country?”

“The presence of a king engenders loveAmongst his subjects, and his royal friends.”

“He that is thy friend indeed, he will help you in your need.”

“Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.”

“The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.”

“Effort is the key, but direction and loyalty are paramount.”

“A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.”

“That is my home of love: if I have ranged,Like him that travels I return again,Just to the time, not with the time exchanged.”

“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”

“Keep thy friendUnder thy own life's key.”

“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”

“Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.”

“The soul of me is very selfish. I have gone my way after a fashion that made me the center of the plan. And you who are so individual, who are so independent a spirit, whose soul is also a kingdom, have been so loyal, so forgiving, so self-sacrificing in your willingness to live my life. Nothing but love cold have accomplished so wonderful a thing.”

“You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.”

“Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person than trust and loyalty.”

“As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,As sun to day, at turtle to her mate,As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.”

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

“The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain,The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord,Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred,Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored;Great nations blossom above,A slave bows down to a slave.”

“Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.”

“It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.”

“Well, while I live I'll fear no other thingSo sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.”

“THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.”

“And say my glory was I had such friends.”

“No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.”

“Friends should be preferred to kings.”