Quotes about trust
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“The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Love, Women, Sadness, Personality

“In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.”

Dan Simmons book The Fall of Hyperion

Variant: Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter’s hug, and realized that in the end—when all else is dust—loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave.
Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 30 (p. 242)

Love, Faith, Loyalty

“Nico was devastatingly alone. He’d lost his big sister Bianca. He’d pushed away all other demigods who’d tried to get close to him. His experiences at Camp Half-Blood, in the Labyrinth and in Tartarus had left him scarred, afraid to trust anyone.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Sister

“Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.”

Ken Follett (1949) British novelist

Water

“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.”

Samuel Adams (1722–1803) American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher

Men, Personality

“…I said everything that matters… Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Evelyn Collier, Chapter 15, p. 223
Source: 2009, The Best of Me (2011)

Life, Happiness

“Folks, I don't trust children. They're here to replace us.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

Children, Funny

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”

Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist

People, Painting

“I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.”

Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted

Source: Ella Enchanted

“My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.”

Frank O'Hara book Meditations in an Emergency (book)

Source: Meditations in an Emergency

Change, Time

“I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.”

Jonathan Maberry (1958) writer

Source: Patient Zero

Evil

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

Time

“A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Love

“I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Doom Patrol, Vol. 1: Crawling from the Wreckage

Way, Guy, Thinking

“There is no such thing as unlimited trust. At some point, all beings with free will can, and will, betray you when you're no longer pursuing the same goals.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Unknown

“I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't very far.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

Strong

“Sometimes I think I’ll never trust another girl the way I trust you.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Way, Girl, Thinking

“Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.”

Max DePree (1924–2017) American businessman and writer

Source: Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community

Effort

“I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Variant: I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.

Hate, School

“Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?"
"Poisoned peanut butter."
"Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.”

Scott Westerfeld book Peeps

Source: Peeps

Life

“Why do I feel like I can't trust you anymore?'

I wanted him to lash out. I wanted him to fight, to protest, to argue- to do anything but look deeper into my eyes and say, 'because the Gallagher Academy doesn't admit fools”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Fools, Feeling, Fight

“Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

Life, Death, Sense

“That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.”

Sara Zarr book Story of a Girl

Source: Story of a Girl

Thinking, Time

“You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't. Trust me, I was there. I know.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Biff, in Ch. 1
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (2002)

Thinking

“If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm… I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.”

Jude Watson book Beyond the Grave

Source: Beyond the Grave

Way, Lying, Time, Heart

“I taught him, 'he quavered, "to trust in love. I said:'when love comes, that is reality.' I said: 'Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

Love, Understanding, Reality, Passion

“This word: Thou shalt not be overcome, was said full clearly and full mightily, for assuredness and comfort against all tribulations that may come. He said not: Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be afflicted; but He said: Thou shalt not be overcome. God willeth that we take heed to these words, and that we be ever strong in sure trust, in weal and woe. For He loveth and enjoyeth us, and so willeth He that we love and enjoy Him and mightily trust in Him; and all shall be well.
And soon after, all was close and I saw no more.”

Julian of Norwich book Revelations of Divine Love

The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 68
Source: Revelations of Divine Love

Love, God, Strong, Affliction

“If you don't trust anyone, they can't let you down.”

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Source: Ghostworld

“Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.”

Harry Crews (1935–2012) Novelist, short story writer, essayist

Source: Blood and Grits

World

“Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Kiss of Shadows

Source: A Kiss of Shadows

Princess

“It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bitter Blood

Hurt

“Instead of focusing on the world's problems, give your attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education and peace.”

Rhonda Byrne book The Secret

Source: The Secret

Love, World, Education, Peace

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

Graham Greene book The Ministry of Fear

Bk. 1, ch. 3, sct. 2
Source: The Ministry of Fear (1943)

Life

“I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.”

Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy

Source: The Van Alen Legacy

Fear

“She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Turbulent Sea

Love, Soul, Heart

“What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?”

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Source: Just Another Judgement Day

World, Lovers

“If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

Dreams, Thinking, Leadership

“In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Pleasure, World, Beauty, Fraud

“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.”

Natalie Goldberg (1948) American writer

Love

“Love cannot live where there is no trust.”

Edith Hamilton book Mythology

Source: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Love

“I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.”

Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War

Christ

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Prudence

Men

“Making a spell is easy. It's trusting you did it right that's hard.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Dead Witch Walking

“It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”

John Wyndham book The Day of the Triffids

Source: The Day of the Triffids

Time

“Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!”

Lloyd Alexander book Taran Wanderer

Source: Taran Wanderer

Forgetting

“Is he a good boy? (Cherise)
No, Mom, he’s Satan incarnate. In fact, once it’s over, we’re going to get liquored up and tattooed, then find some cheap hos and have a good time with his trust fund. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Boy, Moms, Time, Tattoo

“Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.”

Natalie Angier (1958) American writer

Light, Joy, Personality, Selfishness

“In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

World, Beauty, Fraud

“No, no. I trust your judgement. Implicitly. You're just wrong.”

Hy Conrad book Mr. Monk Helps Himself

Source: Mr. Monk Helps Himself

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”

Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker

“You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

Water

“Part of me could do it. Run off and get married. But another part… Another part of me wondered if I could really trust anyone. If all relationships were all doomed.”

Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist

Source: Ten Things We Did

Parting

“never trust a Troglotroll”

Walter Moers (1957) German comic creator and author

“There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

World

“Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

Heart

“We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Princess Irulan in The Humanity of Muad'Dib
Dune (1965)
Context: Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

Learning, Training

“I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Variant: Everything happens for a reason, even when we are not wise enough to see it. When there is no struggle, there is no strength.

“Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer”

Eric Metaxas (1963) American journalist

Source: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

God

“One last question.”
“Very well, dearling.”
“Can I trust Cadeon?”
Nïx gave her a sunny smile with
blank golden eyes. “As far as you can throw him.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Desires After Dusk

Smile, Question

“if you put your trust in God, you’ll be all right in the end.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

God

“In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.”

Sophie Kinsella (1969) British writer

Source: Shopaholic & Baby

“It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Historian

Source: The Historian

“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Learning, Cute, Romantic, For Her

“No, I call. Come back.
I'm here, he says.
But I can't see. It's too bright.
You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Light

“Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers”

Carlo Collodi book The Adventures of Pinocchio

Source: Pinocchio

People

“Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.”

David Gemmell (1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy

Source: Fall of Kings

Heart

“Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.”

Krishna Dharma (1955) British Hindu scholar and author

Life, World, Fear

“Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.”

Jim Butcher book Fool Moon

Source: Fool Moon

Fear

“No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think.”

Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer

Source: Court Duel

Love, Beauty, Thinking

“Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.”

Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Life, Happiness

“The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.”

Keri Hulme (1947) New Zealand writer

Love, Confidence

“Trust. That was what this was all about. If you can't trust the one you love, you don't have anything.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Love

“Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Children, Fear, Learning, Hurt

“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 (1892–1983) British feminist and author

As quoted in The Sunday Telegraph, London (1975), and Rebecca West : A Life (1987) by Victoria Glendinning, p. xi

People

“Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

World, Family

“I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting… Something's going down. I'm right about this.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Waiting

“I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

Disappointment

“Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Love, Life, God, Motivation

“He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: The Piper's Son

“This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust me on this, you'll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that's exactly what you want to do most & then it won't weigh a thing anymore”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Time

“Until he gives you a reason not to trust him, behave as though you trust him.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.”

Robin McKinley book Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

Source: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

“Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

Smile, Communication

“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Truth

“Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other”

Michael Morpurgo book War Horse

Source: War Horse

People, Problem

“Sometimes you have to admit that a relationship can't be fixed. That no matter how much you want to, you can't trust some people.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Cross My Heart, Hope to Die

People

“Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Love, Pain, Learning, Hurt

“Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Women, Men, Children, World

“Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Burnt Offerings

Source: Burnt Offerings

People, Smile

“Trust me, I'm telling you stories…. I can change the story. I am the story.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Written on the Body

Change

“A king who trusts no man is weak.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Dragon Blood

“Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

Tim McGraw (1967) American country singer

Love, Hope

“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”

Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker

Life, Communication, Relationship

“Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“People become trustworthy when they are trusted.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

People

“To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)”

Jonathan Kellerman book Blood Test

Source: Blood Test

“I am not sure I trust you."
"You can trust me with your life, My King."
"But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

Life, Wine

“I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 35, Nail Clippers, Butter Sauce, Iron Vase
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

People

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Quotes about trust
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