Trust Quotes

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've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.”

Barbra Streisand

More Trust Quotes

“I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.”

Jim Valvano

“I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.”

Orlando Bloom

“Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.”

Barbara Bush

“In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.”

Aeschylus

“Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.”

Harvey Fierstein

“What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.”

Pope John Paul II

“I don't trust a lot of journalists.”

Calvin Klein

“Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.”

Lucinda Williams

“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

“I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.”

James Cash Penney

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”

Samuel Johnson

“The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.”

Dave Barry

“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.”

Dee Dee Myers

“Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.”

Haruki Murakami

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