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Quotes About Loyalty

A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
~ Bible
A friend must not be injured, even in jest.
~ Syrus
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
~ Syrus
God same me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies.
~ Marshal de Villars
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
In times of difficulty friendship is on trial.
~ Greek proverb
A friend is never known till a man has need.
~ Anonymous
He who endures penance and hardships for another delights in that person's company.
~ Malik Muhammad Jayasi
A cheer, then, for the noble breast that fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most.
~ Eliza Cook
It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.
~ Marlene Dietrich
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
~ Cicero
A cheer, then, for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most.
~ Eliza Cook
A true friend is the best possession.
~ Anonymous
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
~ William Penn
Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it, we will receive it.
~ Harry E. Humphreys
There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
~ William Penn
Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it, and never hold it.
~ Dagobert D. Runes
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship, as ... the callosity formed 'round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
~ James Boswell
Love your friends as if they would some day hate you.
~ R. D. Hicks
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
~ B. C. Forbes
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
~ Thucydides
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.
~ Anonymous
Treat your fiends as you do your picture, and place them in their best light.
~ Jennie Jerome Churchill