Top 94 Trust Betrayal Quotes
#1. Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal.
Lionel Shriver
#2. Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.
Robin Hobb
#3. Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.
Gregory David Roberts
#4. In this world of many consequences, people help people to achieve or to fail, take care of whom to trust.
Auliq Ice
#5. Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#6. 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
#7. What public health really is is a trust. That's why I used the term 'Betrayal of Trust' as the title of my book. It's a trust between the government and the people.
Laurie Garrett
#8. Only people you trust can ever really betray you, Amber.
Mark Henwick
#10. Atari collapsed in '84, and I went freelance, and that was when I started spreading out and doing my own thing. I really cut loose and did a game called 'Trust and Betrayal', which was the first game solely about interpersonal relationships.
Chris Crawford
#11. God is the reason why even in pain, I smile. In confusion, I understand. In betrayal, I trust. And in fear, I continue to fight. -Bella Swan
Stephenie Meyer
#12. Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in.
Lolah Runda
#15. 'California Bones' is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats wizards. It's a book about friends and family, trust and betrayal, the love of power and the power of love.
Greg Van Eekhout
#17. I trust myself. Beyond that, I'd just as soon go to Vegas. ~ Drew Stirling
Jayden Hunter
#18. In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#19. Well, it's such an intricate, beautiful script about eight professional robbers pulling a heist, and it deals with elements of betrayal, trust, instinct, and need for relationships.
Harvey Keitel
#21. Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal...
Rebecca Solnit
#22. ...my ability to trust had been shattered into splinters, its fragmented shards slicing through every darkened recess of my mind, his absolution won my over all the more.
Jake Wood
#23. It was mind boggling to know that I would experience such betrayal at such a young age while others live their whole life without knowing what betrayal is
Veronika Gasparyan
#24. 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
#25. Never divulge secrets to acquaintances.
Never betray old friends for new ones.
Never mistake flattery for praise.
Never rely on dishonorable people.
Never trust your enemy's friends.
Never mistake someone's kindness for weakness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#26. 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
#27. It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#28. Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#29. All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.
Adolf Hitler
#30. It's your incalculable ability to trust others that has always touched me. And I'm sorry to have taken advantage of it so many times"
- Dr. Paige
James Dashner
#31. Again. Was it better to trust or better to be wary? Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal?
Hanya Yanagihara
#32. One act of betrayal can shatter a lifetime of trust.
Ken Poirot
#33. Let's just say I understand betrayal. And having been where he is, I know the explosion to come. Trust me. 'Duck' won't quite cover it. (Sin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#34. Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.
Wes Fesler
#35. The betrayal meant he couldn't trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn't forgive her.
James Dashner
#36. It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
David Levithan
#37. We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
Oscar Wilde
#38. 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
#39. For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
Suzanne Collins
#40. Taking care of whom to trust everyday, is a key to your living if your to be a live.
Auliq Ice
#41. ...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man's world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#42. The one thing you don't do is screw with me, or I'll make your life a living hell; and trust me I'll make sure you burn!
Anonymous
#43. All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.
Robert C. Solomon
#44. When a leader you are sworn to respect and obey comes out and simply lies about things you know are untrue, and does it to your face, it is a fundamental betrayal of trust that destroys the peasant/warrior relationship.
Terry Mancour
#45. It is difficult to cultivate a healthy relationship in a landscape overgrown with blame, lack of trust, and betrayal
Saji Ijiyemi
#46. You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.
Catherynne M Valente
#47. It's not only love which makes relation strong but it's the trust in each other that makes a relation stronger.
Debolina
#49. In that moment, hell may have ascended,
Or heaven may have descended only to save me and prove,
What I carry is an exaggerated memory of an imagined beautiful love.
This love is tainted with treachery; it will be my doom.
Sreesha Divakaran
#50. The air was thick with betrayal. No one could trust anyone else, and in that dismal atmosphere the men seemed to grow even duller, devolving into mechanical extensions of the machines they serviced.
Hans Fallada
#52. The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
Aldrich Ames
#53. Sometimes moving forward changes what's behind you.
Kami Garcia
#54. Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone.
Haruki Murakami
#56. When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B.
Joyce Rachelle
#57. I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted.
Robin Wasserman
#59. Trust was a word you couldn't translate. But the atevi had fourteen words for betrayal.
C.J. Cherryh
#60. You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.
Ralph Steadman
#61. I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.
Thomas Jefferson
#62. Every Betrayal begins with trust-Phish
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today-James Dean
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live-Anonymous
Brian Jacques
#63. He realized that trust between people is what makes us happy. Any totalitarian state is based on betrayal. It needs people to inform on each other, to avoid socializing to interact only through the state and to avoid unsanctioned meetings.
Oliver Bullough
#64. It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.
Rachel Caine
#65. We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves
Dean Cavanagh
#66. Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
Livy
#67. Isaac didn't understand heartache. Or regret or longing or divided loyalties. Or anger or shattered trust or betrayal. Such things had no clarity. They involved expectations of another's behavior, and Isaac had no such expectations.
Mary Doria Russell
#68. When my words are concealed
With lies and disguises, truth and beyond
Insecurities in the veil of trust
Betrayal in bounds of lies
It's just the charm of words darling
Giving the illusion of happiness inside misery
Irum Zahra
#69. The feeling of betrayal by the friend you trust
Jeon Tae-il
#70. Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#71. It is better to trust and face betrayal than to remain skeptical of everything and everybody. Your open heart is a gift.
Melissa De La Cruz
#72. Mr. Bradshaw was, in a way, my second father. I trusted him and wanted to make him proud. But that day, as I lowered myself to the ground in shock, it was hard to believe I was staring up at the same person.
Embee
#73. In a way, she'd rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust.
Brandon Sanderson
#74. Let's agree to be honest from the start. I would rather feel the disappointment that comes with the realization that we are incompatible than to feel the pain and betrayal that comes with finding out that you're full of crap.
Steve Maraboli
#75. The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.
Thomas Huxley
#76. All the money was spent for the 'Concept Plan' document, which made reasonable recommendations for developments. Now that's kind of being forgotten. That's why I think the public trust is being betrayed.
Stephen F. Hayes
#77. Each betrayal begins with trust.
Phish
#78. I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.
Veronica Roth
#79. When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.
Dena Rosenbloom
#80. Betrayal. That's the first thing I feel, which is ludicrous. For there to be betrayal, there would have had to been trust first.
Suzanne Collins
#81. We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Abraham Lincoln
#82. Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.
Joyce Rachelle
#83. No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. Once, maybe I would have thought you a fool, but ... well, that's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren't going to hurt you.
Brandon Sanderson
#85. For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.
Rumi
#86. That was something, wasn't it? Trust was a good place to start. Especially after the kind of betrayal she'd been through. It made him want to prove he was the kind of man she deserved. The kind of man who'd love her for better or worse. The kind who was faithful and true.
Denise Hunter
#87. If you cannot predict the betrayal from the ones that you love and trust the most, then you are living in a fool's paradise.
Lionel Suggs
#88. 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
#89. I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations.
Joss Whedon
#90. I think it is our nature to believe evil always has an ugly face," he said, ignoring my question. "Beauty is supposed to be good and kind, and to discover it otherwise is like a betrayal of trust. A violation of the nature of things.
Danielle L. Jensen
#91. All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.
Bill Vaughan
#92. You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#93. When you Love.. you Expect.. Once u start Expecting.. u have Hope.. Hopes in return makes you to put Trust.. and Trust makes u prone to Betrayal.. and whn u r Betrayed.. Hell falls over U ... !!!
Abhijeet Sawant
#94. 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
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