When you're part of a team, 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.
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
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. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.
What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.