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
Trust, initially, is an emotional act. We must be vulnerable and trust that someone will accept us and learn to love us. However, once the trust that is built is destroyed, it is based more on a logical and intuitional act. Trust will not blind us from the facts. Love, on the other hand, is blind.
SHEENA AMIN
"Trust vs. Love: 7 Truths To Why Trust Is More Valuable Than Love", Huffington Post, May 8, 2017
Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.
AYN RAND
Atlas Shrugged
Trust is won not given.
TOBSHA LEARNER
The Witch of Cologne
Put not your trust in princes.
BIBLE
Psalms 146:3
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"
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
VLADIMIR LENIN
"Uncritical Criticism", Collected Works
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The Marquis of Lossie
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
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
Sudden trust brings sudden repentance.
LESTYN AP GWRGAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
Never trust he who trusts everyone.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
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
Trust thy self, and another shall not betray thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1739
The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing. That is a scientific fact, as well as a psychological fact. Because, your leaders -- religious and political -- and your books -- sacred and profane -- have all failed, and you are still confused, in misery, in conflict. So, that is an absolute, undeniable fact.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
Psychological Revolution
Confiding Trust, fair flow'r of youthful minds!
Puts forth its simple blossoms all too soon,
Caught by the first alluring beams of spring;
And, dazzled by their bright and sunny glare,
Clings to the tendril promises of words,
Not deeming they are vain, and false as fair;
Till disappointment's nipping frost appears,
And withers all its impulses of life!
C. B. LANGSTON
"Dissapointment"