Motivational Quotes

Trust

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

- Paley, Babe

Best Quotes about Trust

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

Thomas Fuller

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

Love all, but trust a few.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10.

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

Ann Radcliffe

11.

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

12.

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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Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Cook, Eliza

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Trust one who has tried.

Virgil

15.

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

Cardinal de Retz

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

Shakti Gawain

18.

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

Barbra Streisand

19.

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

Aeschylus

20.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

Trust one who has gone through it.

Virgil

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

25.

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

Frank Herbert

28.

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

Democritus

31.

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

Real Live Preacher

32.

A faithful companion is a sure anchor.

Motto

33.

Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.

Cromwell, Oliver

34.

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

Randy K. Milholland

35.

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

Henry Stimson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rowland, Helen

39.

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

Moore, Marianne

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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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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Dunne, Finley Peter

42.

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

Proverb, English

43.

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Widdiconbe, Hohn

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

Jerome Blattner

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

Dryden, John

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

Retz, Cardinal Jean Francois de

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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