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.

“The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.”

Aldrich Ames

More Trust Quotes

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

Barbara Bush

“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.”

Booker T. Washington

“I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.”

Leona Lewis

“When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.”

Angelina Jolie

“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.”

Anna Kendrick

“When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.”

Carlos Ghosn

“Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.”

James Broughton

“I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust, it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you.”

Michael Haneke

“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”

E. M. Forster

“I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.”

Cher

“Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.”

Martha Beck

“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”

Aesop

“Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage there's no betrayal of trust.”

Aldrich Ames

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