Motivational Quotes

Trust

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

- Democritus

Best Quotes about Trust

1.

If you can't trust people, who can you trust?

Widdiconbe, Hohn

2.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

Henry L. Stimson

3.

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.

Dryden, John

4.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

Bennis, Warren

5.

Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected -- for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?

Cowper, William

6.

A faithful companion is a sure anchor.

Motto

7.

I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.

Chatham, William Pitt The Elder, Lord

8.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.

Cardinal de Retz

9.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene

10.

Love all, but trust a few.

Shakespeare, William

11.

My father used to say: Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common.

Young, Stark

12.

A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.

Jerome Blattner

13.

Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

I have seldom known a person, who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

Paley, Babe

15.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Johann K. Lavater

16.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Frank Crane

17.

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.

Elizabeth Aston

19.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

20.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Cook, Eliza

21.

Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.

Cromwell, Oliver

22.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Barbra Streisand

23.

Though he slay me, I shall yet trust Him.

Bible

24.

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

Retz, Cardinal Jean Francois de

25.

You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.

Swift, Graham

26.

When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.

Real Live Preacher

27.

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

Shakespeare, William

28.

Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Trust one who has gone through it.

Virgil

30.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

31.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

Moore, Marianne

32.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

Ann Radcliffe

33.

When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

Shakti Gawain

34.

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Dunne, Finley Peter

35.

No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted.

Einstein, Elsa

36.

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Barbra Streisand

37.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Democritus

38.

If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.

Thomas Fuller

39.

There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.

Randy K. Milholland

40.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Picasso, Pablo

41.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

Aeschylus

42.

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.

Eric Schmidt

43.

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

Rowland, Helen

44.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Crane, Frank

45.

It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.

Proverb, English

46.

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Henry Stimson

47.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Mencken, H. L.

48.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and don't lean on your own understanding. In all things acknowledge him, and he shall direct your way. [Proverbs 3:5, 6]

Bible

49.

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

Howe, Edgar Watson

50.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Johnson, Samuel