"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."
Homer
86 FAMOUS QUOTES · LOYALTY
Read 86 famous loyalty quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."
Homer
"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us."
Washington Irving
"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."Sun Tzu
"Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down."
Grace Hopper
"We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty."
G. K. Chesterton
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.”
Haniel Long
“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.”
Charles Eastman
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.”William Shakespeare
“As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him.”
The Bible (Proverbs 25:13)
“Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?”
Paul Newman
“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
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
Euripides
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
Euripides
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.”William Shakespeare
“The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.”
Mark Twain
“A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.”Benjamin Franklin
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”Benjamin Franklin
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”Martin Luther King Jr.
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.”
Jane Austen
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”Socrates
“While you are fortunate you will have many friends; when the times are clouded, you will be alone.”
Ovid
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
Bob Marley