quotations about trust
Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.
AYN RAND
Atlas Shrugged
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
Invincible
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Extreme distrust is not less harmful than its opposite; the greater part of men are useless to him who will not risk being deceived.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES
Reflections and Maxims
A sharper or more bitter sorrow prove--
Hath Fate a keener thrust,
Than when his dart reveals that one we love
We cannot trust?
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
"Love's Petition"
Trust is won not given.
TOBSHA LEARNER
The Witch of Cologne
To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
VLADIMIR LENIN
"Uncritical Criticism", Collected Works
Sudden trust brings sudden repentance.
LESTYN AP GWRGAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Put not your trust in princes.
BIBLE
Psalms 146:3
Trust, initially, is an emotional act. We must be vulnerable and trust that someone will accept us and learn to love us. However, once the trust that is built is destroyed, it is based more on a logical and intuitional act. Trust will not blind us from the facts. Love, on the other hand, is blind.
SHEENA AMIN
"Trust vs. Love: 7 Truths To Why Trust Is More Valuable Than Love", Huffington Post, May 8, 2017
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The Marquis of Lossie
Trust men, and they will be true to you; trust them greatly, and they will show themselves great, though they make an exception in your favor to all their rules of trade.
J. F. ZACHARIA
attributed, Day's Collacon
There simply is no "us" without Trust.
SHEENA AMIN
"Trust vs. Love: 7 Truths To Why Trust Is More Valuable Than Love", Huffington Post, May 8, 2017
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
FRANK CRANE
attributed, Business Education World, Vol. 15
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
Never trust he who trusts everyone.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
Trust thy self, and another shall not betray thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1739
That level of trust was what being in command was truly about--being able to lead someone not only down an unknown path, but also a seemingly wrong path, if the need called for doing so.
DAVE GALANTER
Troublesome Minds
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do: we may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
Trust, like the soul, never returns when it has once gone.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
attributed, Day's Collacon