Trust Quotes

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik H. Erikson

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Eric Hoffe

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.

William Hazlitt

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth.

Stanley Baldwin

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Agatha Christie

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Barbra Streisand

It is only by not trusting that you turn someone into a liar.

Tao Le Ching

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Author Unknown

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf on Saruman, The Two Towers

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann von Goethe

Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire.

Shakti Gawain

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

John Harold

A man without trust is a man without life.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

A woman should never be trusted with money.

Jane Austen, The Watsons

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

Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

Old Muslim Prove

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.

Lao Tzu

Champions are a rare breed. They trust God while others ask for answers. They step forward while others pray for volunteers. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, the hardships.

Unknown

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Schweitze

I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols - - - "Maxims and Arrows".

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Bertrand Russell V. Delong

In God we trust all others must pay cash.

American Prove

Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.

Allan K. Chalmers

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.

Arab Prove

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.

Horace

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

George Orwell

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

Joe Lewis

The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.

William Shakespeare

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

Frank Crane