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Top 25 Ingrid Betancourt Quotes (2024 Update)

Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “If you believe what you say, words will become reality.”

1. “If you believe what you say, words will become reality.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “Once you don’t have freedom and you’re obliged to do many things you don’t want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be – and you can lose yourself.”

2. “Once you don’t have freedom and you’re obliged to do many things you don’t want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be – and you can lose yourself.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “It’s important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.”

3. “It’s important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity.”

4. “Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile – every smile I see gives me hope.”

5. “After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile – every smile I see gives me hope.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “Sometimes I’m fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I’m putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.”

6. “Sometimes I’m fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I’m putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.”

7. “I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!”

8. “Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.”

9. “It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.”

10. “What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “Nothing that I can encounter today can be as bad as what is behind me. There are small things that used to upset me, but now I just think: Who cares?”

11. “Nothing that I can encounter today can be as bad as what is behind me. There are small things that used to upset me, but now I just think: Who cares?”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “Whatever you could do with your hands was important because it kept you in a motion of being able to produce something, and producing something kept you balanced in a way.”

12. “Whatever you could do with your hands was important because it kept you in a motion of being able to produce something, and producing something kept you balanced in a way.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.”

13. “I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.”

14. “Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you’re supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.”

15. “I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you’re supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave.”

16. “I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “He who could hear my heart knew that I was crying out for help.”

17. “He who could hear my heart knew that I was crying out for help.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “People need space to survive.”

18. “People need space to survive.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.”

19. “In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “I think there is this sensation of being deprived of something that you are entitled to have.”

20. “I think there is this sensation of being deprived of something that you are entitled to have.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “He looked at the world from above. Where I saw threatening waves, he saw tranquil water.”

21. “He looked at the world from above. Where I saw threatening waves, he saw tranquil water.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the land and 20 years ago it wasn’t like that.”

22. “In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the land and 20 years ago it wasn’t like that.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “I no longer knew whether it was raindrops or my own tears that were flowing down my cheeks, and I hated to have to drag along this relic of a sniveling child.”

23. “I no longer knew whether it was raindrops or my own tears that were flowing down my cheeks, and I hated to have to drag along this relic of a sniveling child.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “Now I realized that life supplies us with everything we need for the journey. Everything I had acquired either actively or passively, everything I had learned either voluntarily or by osmosis, was coming back to me as the real riches of my life, even though I had lost everything.”

24. “Now I realized that life supplies us with everything we need for the journey. Everything I had acquired either actively or passively, everything I had learned either voluntarily or by osmosis, was coming back to me as the real riches of my life, even though I had lost everything.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have no security, have no protection of the justice, so that I think is something we have to address.”

25. “I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have no security, have no protection of the justice, so that I think is something we have to address.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.”

26. “I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “Hostages want to survive – they are very focused on their own little view of things.”

27. “Hostages want to survive – they are very focused on their own little view of things.”

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Ingrid Betancourt Quote: “I had not suffered enough to find the rage in my guts I needed to struggle to death for my freedom.”

28. “I had not suffered enough to find the rage in my guts I needed to struggle to death for my freedom.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

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