Quotes about trust

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“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“…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.”

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

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Love cannot live where there is no trust.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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)”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“never trust a Troglotroll”

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

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

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

“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”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“A king who trusts no man is weak.”

“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.”

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

“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??”

“People become trustworthy when they are trusted.”

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

“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.”

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