Trust Quotes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 35 Bible

Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.

Virgil

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

Frank Herbert

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle

When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07 - 08 - 04

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

G. K. Chesterton

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington

Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.

Alan Watts

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 Stimson

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Marva Collins

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

Ron Nesen

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Trust one who has gone through it.

Virgil, The Aeneid

We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Author Unknown

If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.

Fridjof Nansen

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Tyron Edwards

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Albert Einstein

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Booker T. Washington

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.

Robert Browning

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

Jacob Neusne

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

John Collins

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course - - with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here - - To keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson