quotations about trust
Extreme distrust is not less harmful than its opposite; the greater part of men are useless to him who will not risk being deceived.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES
Reflections and Maxims
A sharper or more bitter sorrow prove--
Hath Fate a keener thrust,
Than when his dart reveals that one we love
We cannot trust?
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
"Love's Petition"
Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.
AYN RAND
Atlas Shrugged
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.
MITCH ALBOM
Tuesdays with Morrie
Trust is won not given.
TOBSHA LEARNER
The Witch of Cologne
To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
VLADIMIR LENIN
"Uncritical Criticism", Collected Works
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
FRANK CRANE
attributed, Business Education World, Vol. 15
Put not your trust in princes.
BIBLE
Psalms 146:3
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The Marquis of Lossie
Sudden trust brings sudden repentance.
LESTYN AP GWRGAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It's what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don't let them take that from you.
SHERRILYN KENYON
Invincible
There simply is no "us" without Trust.
SHEENA AMIN
"Trust vs. Love: 7 Truths To Why Trust Is More Valuable Than Love", Huffington Post, May 8, 2017
Trust men, and they will be true to you; trust them greatly, and they will show themselves great, though they make an exception in your favor to all their rules of trade.
J. F. ZACHARIA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Never trust he who trusts everyone.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
The most perfect communion of soul with soul, the most exquisite fellowship of mind with mind, are possible only where undoubted trust and undying love are possible, nowhere else. Nothing so ennobles and purifies a spirit as the exercise of faith in somebody.
REUEN THOMAS
Thoughts for the Thoughtful
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do: we may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
MAYA ANGELOU
attributed, Fifty Years of Living, Laughing and Loving
That level of trust was what being in command was truly about--being able to lead someone not only down an unknown path, but also a seemingly wrong path, if the need called for doing so.
DAVE GALANTER
Troublesome Minds