quotations about trust
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"
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
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
Trust is an evolving and fragile phenomenon that can be destroyed even faster than it can be created.
ELLEN ENKEL
"To Get Consumers to Trust AI, Show Them Its Benefits", Harvard Business Review, April 17, 2017
Trust is won not given.
TOBSHA LEARNER
The Witch of Cologne
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The Marquis of Lossie
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
Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.
AYN RAND
Atlas Shrugged
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Never trust he who trusts everyone.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
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
Put not your trust in princes.
BIBLE
Psalms 146:3
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
The most perfect communion of soul with soul, the most exquisite fellowship of mind with mind, are possible only where undoubted trust and undying love are possible, nowhere else. Nothing so ennobles and purifies a spirit as the exercise of faith in somebody.
REUEN THOMAS
Thoughts for the Thoughtful
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
BIBLE
Psalm 16:1
Sudden trust brings sudden repentance.
LESTYN AP GWRGAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Trust is not like electric light that you switch on and off. You build it up over time and it can be forfeited very quickly.
RAYMOND PARSONS
"Trust not electric light that can be switched on", Moneyweb, May 11, 2017
Trust thy self, and another shall not betray thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1739
Must not he also who has but little trust in others feel himself deprived of a very great blessing? For what society can be agreeable without mutual confidence, even between a man and a wife?
XENOPHON
Hiero