Motivational Quotes

Trust

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

Best Quotes about Trust

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

Frank Crane

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

Jerome Blattner

Trust one who has gone through it.

Virgil

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Democritus

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

10.

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

Dryden, John

11.

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

Thomas Fuller

12.

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

Cardinal de Retz

13.

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

Proverb, Jewish

14.

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

Ann Radcliffe

15.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Cook, Eliza

16.

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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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 thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

Thomas Fuller

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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

20.

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

J. K. Rowling

21.

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

Proverb, English

23.

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

Shakti Gawain

24.

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Dunne, Finley Peter

25.

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

Moore, Marianne

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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

31.

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

Retz, Cardinal Jean Francois de

32.

Trust one who has tried.

Virgil

33.

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

Frank Herbert

34.

A faithful companion is a sure anchor.

Motto

35.

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

Henry Stimson

36.

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

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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 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

40.

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

Barbra Streisand

42.

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

Aeschylus

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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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Though he slay me, I shall yet trust Him.

Bible

45.

Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Eric Schmidt

48.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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