Betray Quotes

Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

If a heart becomes attached to anything other than Allah, Allah makes him dependent on what he is attached to. And he will be betrayed by it.

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

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.

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.

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

I've been betrayed a lot of times in life. I think everybody's been.

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

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.

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.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I'm convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds--or our palms!--and that is why we have tongues to speak.

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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

The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.

We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.

The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.

If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.

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.

If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character.

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.

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.

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.

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