Motivational Quotes

Trust

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Trust

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

Crane, Frank

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A faithful companion is a sure anchor.

Motto

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

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Frank Crane

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

Aeschylus

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Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Cook, Eliza

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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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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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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert

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

Moore, Marianne

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

Retz, Cardinal Jean Francois de

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Though he slay me, I shall yet trust Him.

Bible

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Thomas Fuller

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Love all, but trust a few.

Shakespeare, William

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

Eric Schmidt

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

Dryden, John

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Henry Stimson

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

Widdiconbe, Hohn

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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

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

Jerome Blattner

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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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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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Trust one who has gone through it.

Virgil

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Cardinal de Retz

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

Barbra Streisand

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

Proverb, English

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Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

Thomas Fuller

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

Shakespeare, William

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