quotations about trust
Trust is an evolving and fragile phenomenon that can be destroyed even faster than it can be created.
ELLEN ENKEL
"To Get Consumers to Trust AI, Show Them Its Benefits", Harvard Business Review, April 17, 2017
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.
MITCH ALBOM
Tuesdays with Morrie
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"
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
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
Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.
AYN RAND
Atlas Shrugged
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The Marquis of Lossie
Trust is won not given.
TOBSHA LEARNER
The Witch of Cologne
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Never trust he who trusts everyone.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
Sudden trust brings sudden repentance.
LESTYN AP GWRGAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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 princes.
BIBLE
Psalms 146:3
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
Trust thy self, and another shall not betray thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1739
The most perfect communion of soul with soul, the most exquisite fellowship of mind with mind, are possible only where undoubted trust and undying love are possible, nowhere else. Nothing so ennobles and purifies a spirit as the exercise of faith in somebody.
REUEN THOMAS
Thoughts for the Thoughtful
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
MAYA ANGELOU
attributed, Fifty Years of Living, Laughing and Loving
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
BIBLE
Psalm 16:1
Must not he also who has but little trust in others feel himself deprived of a very great blessing? For what society can be agreeable without mutual confidence, even between a man and a wife?
XENOPHON
Hiero