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Quotes About Loyalty

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
~ Elbert Hubbard
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
~ Unknown
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
~ Jane Austen
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
~ Albert Camus
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
~ George Washington
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money
~ Mark Twain
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does
~ Jane Austen
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship
~ Henry Ward Beecher
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
~ Epicurus
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best
~ Unknown
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
~ Confucius
Good friends have a way of bringing out the best in you By their caring and the interest that they take in all you do
~ Unknown
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it
~ Zora Neale Hurston
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Friendship I've discovered a way to stay friends forever -- There's really nothing to it. I simply tell you what to do And you do it!
~ Shel Silverstein
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that
~ Unknown
True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
~ Ben Jonson
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate
~ Unknown
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
~ Unknown