Motivational Quotes

Trust

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

- Henry Stimson

Best Quotes about Trust

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Graham Greene

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

Cardinal de Retz

A faithful companion is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Moore, Marianne

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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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

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Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

Thomas Fuller

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Cook, Eliza

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Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. Look not through the sheltering bars Upon tomorrow; God will help thee bear what comes of joy and sorrow.

Butts, Mary F.

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Trust one who has gone through it.

Virgil

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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

J. K. Rowling

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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

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

Aeschylus

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Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Retz, Cardinal Jean Francois de

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

Crane, Frank

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

Rowland, Helen

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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

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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

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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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

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Though he slay me, I shall yet trust Him.

Bible

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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

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

Democritus

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The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Frank Crane

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

Dryden, John

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

Barbra Streisand

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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TRUST: I know that you will not -- deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously -- take unfair advantage of me. I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in this group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life, in your hands with complete confidence.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Shakti Gawain

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love all, but trust a few.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

Paley, Babe