Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair. These quotes explore faith in others, betrayal, vulnerability, and the courage it takes to extend trust to people who have the power to disappoint you.
“I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.”
“With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.”
“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.”
“You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.”
“It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.”
“A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.”
“If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.”
“Trust your gut.”
“Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.”
“When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.”
“For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.”
“Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.”
“When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.”
“Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.”
“I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.”
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”