110 Loyal Friend Quotes To Celebrate True Friendship

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

“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

“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.” – Tahar Ben Jelloun

“True friendship isn’t about being there when it’s convenient, it’s about being there when it’s not.”

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides

“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

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

“You cannot do for a loyal friend.” – Henrik Johan Ibsen

“Happy birthday to a dear friend you will be special to me until the end. Celebrate today and know this is true, my life is blessed, because of you.”

“Be a good friend. A really good, loyal, caring, honest and truly fabulous friend.”

“I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.” – Alber Elbaz

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.” – Clifton Fadiman

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

“Loyal friends are real friends and real friends are hard to find.”

“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

“Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.” – Euripides

“A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out.” – Gary Moore

“I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it.” – Amy Grant

“Friends and come and go, but a true friend sticks by you like family.” – Proverbs 18.24 (Bible Verses)

“I’ve always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.” – C. Z. Guest

“There’s nothing more precious than a loyal friend. If you find one, cherish them.”

“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.” – Thomas Cochrane

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

“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 weakness.” – Ann Landers

“Loyalty is about people who stay true to you behind your back.”

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

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

“If a man asks me for my loyalty…I will give him my honesty. If a man asks me for my honesty…I will give him my loyalty!” – John Boyd

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing…that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.” – Mark Twain

“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

“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.”

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.” – Oscar Wilde

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”

“Life moves on, but memories don’t. You may have gone away but our friendship is right here… in my heart. I miss you.”

“F.R.I.E.N.D.S: Fight for you, respect you, include you, encourage you, need you, deserve you, stand by you.”

“All I want is good, honest, loyal friends.” – Aviv Nevo

“It’s been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be. If someone is truly a loyal friend, then they wouldn’t need to broadcast it; eventually, people will figure it out. I have a lot of good friends and not one of them has ever introduced ...

... themselves by saying, ‘I’m a very good friend.’” – Chelsea Handler

“You give loyalty, you’ll get it back. You give love, you’ll get it back.” – Tommy Lasorda

“Everybody that’s riding with you, ain’t riding for you. Let the gas run out and see who’ll help you push.”

“Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest. It’s about who came and never left your side.”

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

“One loyal friend is worth more than a thousand fake ones.”

“Finding is a loyal friend is a hard as finding a tear drop in the ocean! If you have them, cherish them!”

“Not having to question someone’s loyalty and honesty is one of the most freeing feelings in the world and I’m grateful for everyone in my life who brings me that peace.”

“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Lifelong Friend… Everyone has a friend during each stage of life, but only the lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life. Thank you for always being there for me!” – Sterling Silver

“Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one’s nearest kin.” – Proverbs 18:24 (Bible Verses)

“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me- they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.” – Veronica Roth

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

“Lucky are those who find a true loyal friend in this fake world.”

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

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

“When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?” – Amy Tan

“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

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

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

“People say true friends should always. but true friends don’t need to hold hands because they know that the other hand will always be there.”

“It’s been said that everlasting friends go long periods of time without speaking and yet never question the friendship. These friends pick up like they just spoke yesterday, regardless of how long it has been or how far away they live, and they don’t hold grudges. They understand that life is busy and love is ...

... there.”

“If you wanna find out who’s a true friend, screw up or go through a challenging time… Then see who sticks around.” – Karen Salmonsohn

“They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.” – Tom Hayden

“True love and loyal friends are two of the hardest things to find.”

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

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

“Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.” – Milan Kundera

“My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You’ve been with me on every road I’ve taken. My scar and my protection.” – Marina Tsvetaeva

“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

“A true friend is the only person who never gets tired of listening to your own pointless dramas over and over again.”

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

“Blessed is the one who has a loyal friend.”

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

“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.” – Jean de La Fontaine

“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

“Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.” – Minna Antrim

“No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.” – Aelred of Rievaulx

“Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.” – Al Capone

“Scouting exposes young men to people and experiences that encourage and nurture positive moral values. But we mustn’t take Scouting for granted. You can do nothing more important for young people today than to continue, or begin, your support of Scouting. I have never met anyone with devoted Scouting experience ...

... who was not a solid citizen, a loyal friend, and a patriot. We need more of them.” – Wallace G. Wilkinson

“My dogs have been my most loyal friends and constant companions.” – Cesar Millan

“If you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” – Muhammad Ali

“Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.” – Seneca

“He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.” – Voltaire

“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

“Whither thou goest, I will go; Where thou diest, will I die And there will I be buried: The Angel do so to me, and more also, If aught but death part thee and me.” – Cassandra Clare

“Friendship with oneself is all important.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“I’m an awfully loyal friend. Once I’ve started a relationship with someone, it’s like they are syrup and I’m a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.” – Warren Farrell

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

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

“Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.” – Confucius

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

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

“Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.” – William Powell

“At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?” – ...

... Phil McGraw

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

“We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.” – George H. W. Bush

“Loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I’ll like it or not.” – General Colin Powell

“The forest is my loyal friend. A Delphic shrine to me.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It’s a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.” – Luis Bunuel

“Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.” – Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Loyalty is so important because it acts as an empowering energy that allows us to do incredible, brave things that otherwise would scare us. Loyalty teaches us to accept sacrifice with open heart whenever life tests our values.”

“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.” – Maurice R. Franks

“Loyalty is a decision, a resolution of the soul.” – Pascal Mercier

“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

“Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you’re never friendless ever, if you have a dog.” – Douglas Malloch

“I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” – Oscar Wilde

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

“Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.” – Henry David Thoreau