Good Trust Quotes to Live By
We’ve put together some good quotes on trust for your reflection or to share with others. Believing in someone is the foundation of all kinds of relationships. And it is also one of the most complex elements of human relationships.
Once it is gone, it is almost impossible to rebuild it. It is also a paradoxical element. Even though you cannot put your faith in everyone, you cannot lead a happier life without putting your faith in others.
Great men and women have said these quotations. Share their thoughts with others, or refer to them often, to recognize the importance of this quality in your life.
Quotes about Trust
1.) Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein
2.) Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.
Mona Sutphen
3.) Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
4.) Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5.) Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen R. Covey
6.) Trust is like a vase. Once it’s broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.
Walter Anderson
7.) Trust is like blood pressure. It’s silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.
Frank Sonnenberg
Keeping the Faith
8.) If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.
Gordon A. Eadie
9.) Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Warren Bennis
10.) You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.
Frank Crane
11.) You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible.
Anton Chekhov
12.) Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
Eric Sevareid
13.) It is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest, that holds human associations together.
H. L. Mencken
Confidence
14.) Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
15.) Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
16.) A person who trusts himself and depends on himself has true happiness. That person does not need anyone else’s approval to be happy or to feel confident in his own skin.
Unknown
17.) Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
18.) Don’t believe words; always trust actions.
Unknown
19.) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Dr. Benjamin Spock
20.) Know yourself, love yourself, trust yourself, learn to spend time in your own company and listen to your innermost self.
Etta Sawyerr
21.) Trust yourself to be able to confront and work through your emotions. If you believe you can’t do it, you won’t do it and you’ll become stuck. If you believe you can do it, you will.
Sam Owen
22.) The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E.M. Forster
Trust Definition
“Assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something” from Merriam-Webster.
Reliability in Relationships
23.) Betrayal is the worst … and the key to moving past it is to identify what led up to it in the first place.
Charles J. Orlando
24.) I’m not upset that you lied to me; I’m upset that from now on, I can’t believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
25.) There is only one way to rebuild trust once it has been broken: over time.
Charles J. Orlando
26.) Don’t trust the person who has broken faith once.
William Shakespeare
27.) When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
Stephen R. Covey
28.) It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
29.) It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
David Levithan
30.) Trust is a gift. Don’t try to exchange it for something else.
Charles J. Orlando
31.) 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.
Thomas J. Watson
Believing
32.) The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
Stephen King
33.) Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.
Eminem
34.) Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.
Isaac Watts
35.) People ask me why it’s so hard to trust people, and I ask them why is it so hard to keep a promise.
Unknown
36.) I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Robert E. Lee
37.) Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose and the hardest thing in the world to get back.
R. Williams
38.) Broken people lead to broken hearts. That’s why it’s so important to heal from one relationship before starting another.
Mandy Hale
39.) A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume
40.) Raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies are the main reason I have trust issues.
Unknown
41.) Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
42.) Whoever believes in Him shall not have everlasting life in torment.
Unknown
Trust Quotes – Conviction Counts
43.) I trust no one, not even myself.
Joseph Stalin
44.) Don’t trust anyone over 30.
Pat Boone
45.) Like everybody and trust no one.
Lauren Conrad
46.) Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Agatha Christie
47.) Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.
Billy Wilder
48.) Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
Eubie Blake
49.) You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
Marilyn Monroe
50.) Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
Lemony Snicket
51.) Trust nothing but your intuition. Your intuition will tell you who to trust.
Unknown
52.) Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
Lawrence Welk
53.) Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
J. K. Rowling
Belief Insights
54.) I’ve learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it, and to not try and hide it.
Sarah McLachlan
55.) Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust.
Patricia Hampl
56.) A person who never learned to trust confuses intensity with closeness, obsession with care, and control with security.
Patrick Carnes
57.) Trust is only gained when one person risks and doesn’t get harmed. It grows as both people increasingly risk and don’t get harmed in the process.
Glen Williams
58.) Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.
Robert C. Solomon
59.) Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon
60.) We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Best Trust Quotes
61.) Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.
Stephen Covey
62.) Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Maya Angelou
63.) Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
William P. Young
64.) Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.
Roy T. Bennett
65.) There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
Maya Angelou
66.) Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.
Jodi Picoult
Short Trust Quotes
67.) Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
68.) Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
69.) The best proof of love is trust.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
70.) Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.
Dhar Mann
71.) Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
72.) To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
George MacDonald
73.) Trust is built with consistency.
Lincoln Chafee
74.) All the world is made of faith, trust, and pixie dust.
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Trust Quotes in The Workplace
75.) A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.
Simon Sinek
76.) It’s just meaningless coordination. It is trust that shifts a group of people into a team.
Maria-Claire Ross
77.) Trust starts with trustworthy leadership. It must be built into the corporate culture.
Barbara Brooks
Importance of Trust
78.) Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
Criss Jami
79.) Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone’s hand and setting the very point to your heart.
Cassandra Clare
80.) Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities of which they were previously unaware.
David Armistead
81.) It takes two to do the trust tango -one who risks (the trustor) and the one who is trustworthy (the trustee); each must play their role.
Warren Buffett
82.) Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics nor the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.
Timothy Zahn
83.) Trust is not an obsession; it’s an extension of love. When we truly love someone, we give them our heart to hold in their hands. And when that love is returned, that very trust is balm to our souls.
Julie Lessman
Inspirational Trust Quotes
84.) When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self — the deepest fears, the hidden desires — a powerful intimacy is born.
Sarah Pekkanen
85.) Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics nor the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.
Timothy Zahn
86.) Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.
Joyce Meyer
Professions People Place Their Faith In (and Don’t)
From Gallup poll: Percentage of U.S. adults saying the following professions have high/very high honesty and ethical standards:
- Nurses: 82%
- Military Officers: 71%
- Grade School Teachers: 66%
- Medical Doctors: 65%
- Pharmacists: 62%
- Police Officers: 56%
- Judges: 43%
- Clergy: 42%
- Bankers: 25%
- TV Reporters: 23%
- Lawyers: 18%
- Business Executives: 16%
- Lobbyists: 8%
Nurses come out on top, with 82% of Americans considering them to have high or very high honesty and ethical standards. Lobbyists, well, not so much.
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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