50 Devotion Quotes About Being Loyal and Loving

By Stephanie Kirby | Published July 26, 2023

Check out these devotion quotes about having someone or something in your life that you are wholly loyal and loving toward.

Devotion is wholehearted love and loyalty to a person, a cause, or an idea.

When you are devoted to someone or something, that person or cause knows they can count on you through easy and tough times.

Here are some things you might be devoted to:

Your Faith – You may be dedicated to your beliefs and will not waver.
A person – Whether it is your spouse, a child, a sibling, a parent, or a friend, if you are devoted to them, they know they can always count on you.
Helping Others – Whether that is building houses, raising money, or encouraging and helping others live a better life, you can be devoted to the cause.
Your business idea – It might be tough, but you will make your business successful.

Take a look at these devotion quotes to learn more about what being devoted means.

Top Devotion Quotes

Check out some of the top quotes on devotion.

1. “Devotion is diligence without assurance.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

2.“When devotion arises, life becomes profound.” — Sadhguru

3. “Devotion beings at home, inside your own awareness.” — Debbie Ford

4. “Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.” — Mahatma Gandhi

5. “You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.” — Mary Oliver

6. “Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.” — Xun Kuang

7. “True devotion and commitment are never made with the mind.” — Jamie Sams

8. “With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.” — Rumi

9. “Much of my life has been a devotion to a simple expression: you can lead without a title.” — Robin S. Sharma

10. “True strength lies in submission, which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.” — Henry Miller

Love and Devotion Quotes

Love and devotion go hand in hand, as seen in these quotes.

11. “True devotion is motivated by love alone and devoid of selfish entanglements.” — Rick Hocker

12. “I’ll be honest. After I got married, I definitely had a shift in emotional devotion.” — Abby Wambach

13. “Love grows from stable relationships, shared experiences, loyalty, devotion, trust.” — Richard Wright

14. “There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.” — Oscar Wilde

15. “Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.” — Nicholas Sparks

16. “True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion… It is wide and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.” — Ellen G. White

17. “If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something.” — Sadhu Vawani

18. “Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.” — Saint Francis de Sales

Hard Work and Devotion Quotes for Success

As you will see in the following quotes, being devoted is hard work.

19. “You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.” — Reggie Lee

20. “In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.” — Willie Mays

21. “Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.” — Ramana Maharshi

22. “To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.” — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

23. “Being productive at your craft is important. Being productive in your devotion to grow as a human is essential.” — Robin S. Sharma

24. “It takes a lifetime of devotion to build your craft, your confidence, and the ability to sing and dance and act believably.” — Donna McDechnie

25. “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

26. “Maybe I’ve just been incredibly fortunate, but there’s a level of dedication, devotion, intensity, and seriousness around me every day.” — Andrea Riseborough

27. “Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.” — Albert Einstein

Devotion Quotes About Religion

Enjoy these quotes about religion and devotion.

28. “I do devotion in the morning. I pray, and I read the word.” — Andra Day

29. “Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.” — Ramakrishna

30. “Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.” — Andy Stanley

31. “The time you spend with God will transform your character and increase your devotion.” — Charles Stanley

32. “We cannot increase our devotion to the Savior without also obtaining a greater sense of purpose, identity, and conviction.” — Sheri L. Dew

33. “For the person who is religiously or spiritually inclined, work even becomes a vehicle for devotion, a way of utilizing one’s gifts and talents to serve others.” — Marsha Sinetar

34. “For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts until God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.” — Richard Rolle

35. “There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in —that we do it for God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.” — Mother Teresa

Devotion Quotes About Loyalty

If you are devoted, then you are loyal.

36. “Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery.” — Morihei Ueshiba

37. “If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.” — William Lloyd Garrison

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

39. “Your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion—these are the things that count in life.” — Scott O’Grady

40. “Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

41. “Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs—loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love—can be elusive to humans.” — John Grogan

42. “Soldiers, when committed to a task, can’t compromise. It’s unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it’s been done.” — John Keegan

43. “The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as class as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty, the devotion, unlike any other and the protectiveness.” — Robert Crais

Additional Devotion Quotes and Sayings

Enjoy some more quotes about devotion.

44. “Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.” — Agnes Martin

45. “Being productive at your craft is important. Being productive in your devotion to grow as a human is essential.” — Robin S. Sharma

46. “Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.” — Eileen Myles

47. “It is, in fact, precisely to defend the right to free speech that countless patriots have given the last full measure of devotion.” — Max Boot

48. “Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

49. “Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason, mastery demands all of a person.” — Albert Einstein

50. “I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not comfortable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.” — Michel de Montaigne