146 Never Betray Quotes

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Famous Never Betray Quotes

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. — William Penn

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me. - Cao Cao

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me. — Cao Cao

Only my dogs will not betray me. — Maria Callas

A promise must never be broken. — Alexander Hamilton

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. - Judy Holliday

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. — Judy Holliday

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard. — Confucius

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself. — Aesop

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

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once. — William Shakespeare

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

All a man can betray is his conscience. — Joseph Conrad

Each betrayal begins with trust. — Martin Luther

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal. - Vladimir Putin

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal. — Vladimir Putin

Short Never Betray Quotes

  • No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • One cannot be betrayed if one has no people. — Takeru Kobayashi
  • Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach. — Shania Twain
  • Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. — William Wordsworth
  • Your word is your bond. — Melvyn Douglas
  • Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. — Oliver Cromwell
  • The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo. — Aldrich Ames
  • Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. — William Shakespeare
  • We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. — Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
  • Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. — Elizabeth I

Never Betray Image Quotes

Never betray quote For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Never Betray A Friend Quotes

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. - Confucius

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. — Confucius

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them. — Edward Abbey

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. — C. S. Lewis

Never betray quote Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.

He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one. — Henry George Bohn

It's never over till it's over with a friend. — Howard Jacobson

There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust. — Daniel Abraham

Never Betray Me Quotes

I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours. — Horace Walpole

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't. — Anita Brookner

I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio. — Greil Marcus

Never betray quote Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.

I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal. — Elie Wiesel

I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me. — Darren Shan

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue. — Jimmy Carter

Never betray quote Never regret anything that made you smile.
Never regret anything that made you smile.

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. — Peter Schjeldahl

There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you. — Ruth Wilson

I shall never eat duck again. I cannot believe I used to like duck. The duck betrayed me. — Cassandra Clare

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her. — Philippa Gregory

Don't Betray Quotes

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

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

Never betray quote The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

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

Shortsighted things that people sometimes do for their individual self-interest don’t tend to work out well in the long run. — Edward O. Thorp

I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do. — Brandon Sanderson

Never betray quote You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about
You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.

Lies don’t end relationships the truth does. — Shannon Alder

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other. — George Orwell

Money and power don’t change you, they just further expose your true self. — Jay-Z

You can show somebody all the love in the world but that don’t mean they gonna show it back. — 21 Savage

Betray 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

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

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

Never betray quote Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.

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

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

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

Never betray quote Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.

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

Silence is the true friend that never betrays. — Confucius

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

Betrayal 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

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

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave. — Eric Clapton

Never betray quote Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.

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

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

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. — Sigmund Freud

Never betray quote Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. — Charles De Gaulle

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

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

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. — Mineko Iwasaki

Being Betrayed Quotes

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

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. — Malcolm X

Never betray quote Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.
Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.

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

Be true to Love. Do not betray Her. Then, on the day that the forest of the mind bursts into flames, you will not run. You will remain silent and still; for this is when Love bears Her sweetest fruit: untouched Presence. — Mooji

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. - Aesop

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. — Aesop

While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being. — Marianne Williamson

As CEO, I’d often tell my executives and board that every email should be written and every conversation conducted as though it will one day be leaked. — Rand Fishkin

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal. — Milan Kundera

Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother — Hamid Karzai

Love Betrayal Quotes

Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you. — Sun Myung Moon

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. - Lawrence Durrell

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. — Lawrence Durrell

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever. — Sylvia Plath

The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her. — Edward Barber

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

Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. — Shannon Alder

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life. — Thomas Moore

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. — David Levithan

The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised. — Macklemore

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter. — Jean Racine

Never Trust Quotes

Don't depend too much on anyone. — Ibn Taymiyyah

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. - Corrie Ten Boom

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. — Corrie Ten Boom

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it — Tupac Shakur

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend. — Harry S. Truman

Trust me, ... I know where my heart is and my heart's right here. I'm going to keep doing everything because I love to do it, but I will never sacrifice my time between the ropes. That's no shot to anybody. Everybody's got different career paths. This is mine. — John Cena

Never base your faith on your feelings. Base it on God's Word. - Kenneth Copeland

Never base your faith on your feelings. Base it on God's Word. — Kenneth Copeland

Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes. — Billy Graham

Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails. — John Hagee

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe

In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name. — George Muller

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More Never Betray Quotes

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. — Ray Davies

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

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

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. — Joan Didion

Never be a slave of loyalty to unloyal people. — Shannon Alder

Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement. — James Cook

Your mother betrayed my father as well as her Clan. You have no right to be a medicine cat. No right to even live among the Clans. I'll never forgive you for what you've done! Never! — Erin Hunter

... we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted; we betray secrets that were never entrusted to us; we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business; And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods. — Brassai

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

If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. — Henry Ford

I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it. — Brandon Sanderson

Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims. — Sydney J. Harris

It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is. — Jacqueline Carey

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent. — Oscar Wilde

How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to these low days of smiles that will never again be sly enough to hide the knowledge of betrayal and deceit. — Ayi Kwei Armah

Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself? — Anne Desclos

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it. — Christine Feehan

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people. — Vivienne Westwood

Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you. — John Boyle O'Reilly

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time. — Mario Puzo

If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed. — Michael Cunningham

You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love... betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life. — John Osborne

Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile, a foreign land in which I speak a foreign tongue. But I will never live in Poland. I do not want to, though I do not see an end to the mourning. — Irena Klepfisz

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

You can never betray the people who are dead. — Anita Brookner

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence — William Shakespeare

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane. — Eddie Vedder

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned. — Honore de Balzac

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them. — Vincent de Paul

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body. — Veronica Roth

Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win our votes but never governed like a conservative. — Richard Viguerie

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