Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience. — Joseph Conrad
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. — Stephen King
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself. — Aesop
Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust. — Aldrich Ames
Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Short Betrayal Of Trust Quotes
I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me. — Cao Cao
All a man can betray is his conscience. — Joseph Conrad
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. — William Penn
Trust and honesty is an investment you put in people. — Rachel Scott
In persons grafted in a serious trust,
Negligence is a crime. — William Shakespeare
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity. — Dalai Lama
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Trust is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing. — Drake
No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Betrayal Of Trust Image Quotes
To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark, that is faith.
When Trust Is Betrayed Quotes
There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust. — Elijah Muhammad
Lack of trust is an enormous transaction cost, and I underestimated this when I first got into business. — Sam Bankman-Fried
There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself? — Jodi Picoult
Today I will go out with the flow of life and trust the process. I will not stress over things I can't control.
When a trust is betrayed, that has to be rebuilt. — Tamara Keith
You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment. — Arthur Blank
There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war. — Bernard Cornwell
Trust yourself. You have survived a lot and you will survive whatever is coming.
There is no such thing as unlimited trust. At some point, all beings with free will can, and will, betray you when you're no longer pursuing the same goals. — Rachel Caine
Trust Betray Quotes
The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on the contrary, those myriads of public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. — Dalton Trumbo
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust. — Aldrich Ames
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. — Mineko Iwasaki
I don't trust words. I trust actions.
Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole. — African Proverbs
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. — Aesop
Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust. — Billy Graham
Never lie to someone who trusts you and never trust someone who lies to you.
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal. — Malcolm X
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country. — Noah Webster
The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend. — Heather Brewer
Being Betrayed Quotes
It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal. — Vladimir Putin
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye. — Marvin Gaye
When trust is broken, sorry means nothing.
Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven. — Saint Patrick
Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them. — Frank Ocean
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. — Rollo May
When your vision is clear have faith and trust yourself even when you don't know where your path is taking you.
The church would betray its own love for God and its fidelity to the gospel if it stopped being . . . a defender of the rights of the poor . . . a humanizer of every legitimate struggle to achieve a more just society . . . that prepares the way for the true reign of God in history. — Oscar Romero
I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason. — Cato the Younger
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. — Joseph Story
Betrayal Quotes
Just because they say they're praying for you in your face, doesn't mean they aren't laughing at your struggle behind your back. — Trent Shelton
We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. And to betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. — Prince Ea
When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government. — Alexander Hamilton
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. — Mark Twain
I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. — Confucius
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. — Anais Nin
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. — Anais Nin
My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other. — Yunus Emre
If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character. — Krystal
Lost Trust Quotes
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. — Charles Krauthammer
Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back. — R. M. Williams
I would rather lose money than trust — Robert Bosch
You are never too lost that God cannot reach you. — Annie Lobert
One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence. — Lisi Harrison
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself. — John Harold
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. — Barack Obama
Trust And Distrust Quotes
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. — Michael Jackson
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. — Alfred Adler
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. — Anton Chekhov
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him. — Henry L. Stimson
I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them. — Troy Kennedy Martin
Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself. — W. C. Fields
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. — Eric Sevareid
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. — Isaac Watts
Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life. — Georg Feuerstein
Lack Of Trust Quotes
So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self. — Lee Roberson
Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else's mind. When you're OK, you don't need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself. — Jada Pinkett Smith
I will garden on the double run,
my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes,
and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind
and work until my heart is short,
then go out slowly with a feeble grin,
my fingers flexing but my eyes gone gray
from cramps and the lack of oxygen. — Richard Hugo
Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship. — Sam Harris
We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust. ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person. — Warren Buffett
The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything. — Kim Basinger
Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it. — Adora Svitak
A lack of transparency that fuels the idea that she is either hiding something or simply not someone to be trusted. — Christopher Michael Cillizza
Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing. — Clive James
Hard To Trust Quotes
I love you just the way you are but you don't see you like I do. You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you. — Bo Burnham
People ask me why it is so hard to trust and I ask them why is it so hard to keep a promise. — Wiz Khalifa
The main advantage of blockchain technology is supposed to be that it's more secure, but new technologies are generally hard for people to trust, and this paradox can't really be avoided. — Vitalik Buterin
When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence. — Bob Benson
Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends. — Eminem
When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that. — Barbara Boxer
The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more! — Max Lucado
It's hard in a monetary system to trust people. — Jacque Fresco
He who does not trust enough will not be trusted. — Lao Tzu
Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder. — Maria V. Snyder
Being Trusted Quotes
I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this. — Kevin Gates
Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well. — Joan of Arc
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. — Marva Collins
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. — Corrie Ten Boom
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time. — Abraham Lincoln
To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him. — Al-Ghazali
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party. — Ulysses S. Grant
Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody. — Tupac Shakur
Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders. — Diane Nash
Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy till he abandons it: when he is trusted he betrays his trust, when he talks he lies, when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he abuses. — Elijah Muhammad
The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act. — James Madison
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. — Charles Sanders Peirce
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. — Charles Sanders Pierce
It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. — David Levithan
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger. — Orson Scott Card
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. — Henry L. Stimson
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse. — Janet Malcolm
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them. — Buddha
Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust. — Greg Behrendt
The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him. — Aldous Huxley
It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it. — Nicole Richie
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. — Tennessee Williams
All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal. — Robert C. Solomon
I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors. — George H. W. Bush
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. — Jean Giraudoux
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray. — Albert Camus
I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved one fighting an illness, to losing a job, being betrayed by somebody you trust, all parts of the human condition. No one is exempt from those things. — Danielle Steel
I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did. — Hans Fritzsche
For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first. — Suzanne Collins
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust. — Charles Sanders Peirce
For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public. — Douglas Alexander
The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best. — Ralph Steadman
Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least. — Wes Fesler
The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying. — Thomas Huxley
I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body. — Veronica Roth
For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth. — Rumi
While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping a secret" until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust. — Bell Hooks
I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust first. If you do that, you will be betrayed sometimes. But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes. — Mark Leslie
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