A toxic environment can easily be corrupted by acts of backstabbing and lies. These quotes about backstabbing friends serve as just some examples to the type of challenges that exist when trust is violated.
“A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.”
“All the mistakes in the world couldn’t measure up to the day I thought I could trust you.”
“Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.”
“Backstabbing occurs when a friend agrees with you when the two of you are alone but later sides with your opponents in a social setting.”
“Be careful to whom you trust. Betrayal always come from the persons you trusted.”
“Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.”
“Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.”
“Betrayal does that — betrays the betrayer.”
“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
“Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.”
“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us when we cross into the shade.”
“Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”
“History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.”
“I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?”
“I think there’s a feeling of – a grassroots feeling of being betrayed by the elites in some way: that the system is working for itself and not for the people at the bottom.”
“I was the one who said things changed; you were the one who proved it.”
“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.”
“If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.”
“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.”
“If you’re talking about me behind my back that just means my life is obviously more interesting than yours.”
“Insecurity is the reason why backstabbers are born.”
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
“It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
“Never turn your back on a friend, that’s the best target.”
“No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver…. The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.”
“One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though… betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.”
“Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.”
“People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, able to perform great acts of charity. On the other, capable of the most underhanded forms of betrayal. It’s a constant battle that rages within all of us.”
“Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.”
“The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.”
“There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don’t confide in you anymore. The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent.”
“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.”
“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.”
“To understand loyalty you need to experience betrayal.”
“True friends don’t kick you when you are down.”
“Trust is a fragile thing once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom but once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we’re closest to can betray us.”
“We can tolerate our true enemies, but not the back stabbers and betrayers.”
“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.”
“When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.”
“You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal.”
“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise.”
“Your life must be filled with such incredible loneliness that your only joy comes from destroying everyone else’s happiness.”
Having someone backstab you can leave you with unmeasurable emotional harm.
47 Most Famous Motivational Quotes of All-Time
49 Greatest Love Quotes
37 Inspirational Quotes that Will Change Your Life
