Fundamental Values Project

Quotes on Trust/Trustworthiness

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else. -- Cardinal De Retz

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. --Booker T. Washington

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. --Henry David Thoreau

It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. -- English Proverb

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. --William Shakespeare

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. --E.M. Forster

Our distrust is very expensive. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. --Henry L. Stimson

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. --Alfred Adler

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. --Billy Wilder

Who would not rather trust and be deceived? --Eliza Cook

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. --Frank Crane

Be just to all, but trust not all. --Traditional

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least. --Theognis

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. – George MacDonald

Self--trust is the first secret of success. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Whenever the people are well--informed, they can be trusted with their own government. – Thomas Jefferson

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them. --Troy Kennedy-Martin

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. --George MacDonald

If people trust and love you, you will never walk alone.
--Philippos

Trust yourself before you can trust anyone else
--Maly Vue

If you can't trust yourself, then who are you going to turn to when you need advice?
--Craig Anderson

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
--Rebecca West

A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. – Jerome Blattner

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. – Mother Theresa

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

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. –Democritus

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

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

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends. -- Aeschylus

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.-- Proverb

If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.-- Virginia Woolf

I hope I shall always have firmness and virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
-- George Washington

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes. -- French Proverb

A promise must never be broken.-- Alexander Hamilton

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar? -- Michael Josephson

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. -- Warren Bennis

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them. -- Camillo Benso Conte Di Cavour

Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. -- Mary F. Butts

Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys. -- Jewish Proverb

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average. -- Cardinal Jean Francois de Retz

If you can't trust people, who can you trust? -- Hohn Widdiconbe

My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common." -- Stark Young

Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile. --Frank H T Rhodes

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. --Foster C. McClellan

When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously. --Shakti Gawain

Those who trust us, educate us. -- George Eliot

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.-- Sue Halpern

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not. --Marie Von Ebner--Eschenbach

Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness. -- Ayn Rand

Trust only those who stand to lose as much as you do when things go wrong. --Bralek

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck. --Ed Howe

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe -- Claudia Black

Do not trust the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged. --Oliver Cromwell

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he has injured you -- Henry Fielding

The more we learn to operate in the world based on trust in our intuition, the stronger our channel will be and the more money we will have -- Shakti Gawain

I am saying…can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted. --John Holt

Trust that still, small voice that says, "This might work and I'll try it." --Diane Mariechild

But we need to trust the outcome, to not be defeated in our hearts, ever, knowing that the very core of our being cannot be undone. Not without our consent -- John McEnullty

People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance. -- Pierre-August Renoir

The key is to trust your heart to move where your talents can flourish. This old world will really spin when work becomes a joyous expression of the soul --Al Sacharov

I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. --Barbra Streisand

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. --Henry David Thoreau

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without trust there is nothing. -- Anonymous

Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven. --Proverb

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. --Horace

Self-trust is the essense of heroism. –--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best proof of love is trust. --Joyce Brothers

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love. --Rabindranath Tagore

When mistrust comes in, love goes out. --Irish Saying

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. –Graham Greene

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? --T.S. Eliot

The team that trusts--their leader and each other--is more likely to be successful. -- Mike Krzyzewski

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket. -- Miguel De Cervantes

Learn to trust your own judgement, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort good from bad -- including your own bad. -- Doris Lessing

Mistrust begets mistrust. Trust begets accomplishment. –-Tao Te Ching

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction. –- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware. --David Armistead

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

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. --H. L. Mencken

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others. --Peter Farquharson

Trust: Just as you would not want to do business with someone you can't trust, this law simply stated is: When you can completely trust the process of the universe and life, you will be supplied abundantly and you will be able to make your life work just the way you want it. And the trust you give and have must be 100% or it is zero. It cannot be given under one condition and not under another. There are many things we trust with our lives and have no concern about. Such as: the sun will come up every day; the law of gravity works all the time; the pilot who pilots the plane we fly on, is competent; our garbage is picked up on certain days. If we could not trust the things we take for granted will occur without any effort on our part, the fear for our well being would be so great we would not be able to enjoy our lives. Can you imagine what the world would be like, if we could not trust the food we buy, the water we drink or that the people we depend on would not manipulate or harm us? But the only way we can expect others to trust us is, we need to be trustworthy ourselves, and especially to ourselves. Unfortunately, many people don't trust themselves and the judgments and decisions they make. Therefore, they experience disharmony with their lives and their world. --Sidney Madwed

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