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“It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.” – English Proverb
“Never trust the version that people give of themselves — it is utterly unreliable.” – Robert Greene
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.” – Frank Crane
“Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities of which they were previously unaware.” – David Armistead
“There’s never a reason to trust someone. If there’s a reason, then it’s not trust.” – Gerald Morris
“Trust is only gained when one person risks and doesn’t get harmed. It grows as both people increasingly risk and don’t get harmed in the process.” – Glen Williams
“Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.” – Agatha Christie
“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.” – Lord Byron
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” – Oprah Winfrey
“I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.” – Troy Kennedy-Martin
“I trust no one, not even myself.” – Joseph Stalin
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Trust, but verify.” – Ronald Reagan
“Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.” – Maria V. Snyder
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” – Confucius
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” – George Eliot
“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.” – Robert E. Lee
“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” – Zig Ziglar
“In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.” – Brad Meltzer
“It’s a delight to trust somebody so completely.” – Jeff Goldblum
“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.” – Alfred Adler
“Sometimes you don’t know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.” – Demi Lovato
“A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.” – Harold Macmillan
“Trust everybody, but cut the cards.” – Finley Peter Dunne
“Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.” – Christopher Hitchens
“We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.” – Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
“A king who trusts no man is weak.” – Patricia Briggs
“To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.” – E.M. Forster
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Trust is very hard if you don’t know what you’re trusting.” – Marianne Williamson
“Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.” – Eric Sevareid
“If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.” – Selena Gomez
“People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.” – Shannon L. Adler
“Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.” – Warren Bennis
“The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.” – Winston Churchill
“They that trust in the Lord shall never be confounded!” – George Muller
“The primary reason people believe in anything is because others believe.” – Brian Norgard
“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.” – Herodotus
“When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.” – Patrick Lencioni
“Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.” – Paolo Coelho
“Take no one’s word for anything, including mine – but trust your experience.” – James Baldwin
“People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.” – Tim Ferris
“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” – Kahlil Gibran
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.” – Rene Descartes
“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.” – Doris Lessing
“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.” – Anton Chekhov
“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Only those you trust can betray you.” – Terry Goodkind
“The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Trust is like a vase, once it’s broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.” – Walter Anderson
“Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.” – David Gemmell
“A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.” – Gregory David Roberts
“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.” – Jodi Picoult
“You can’t trust anybody with power.” – Newt Gingrich
“The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” – Stephen King
“Trust is not an obsession, it’s an extension of love. When we truly love someone, we give them our heart to hold in their hands. And when that love is returned, that very trust is balm to our souls.” – Julie Lessman
“Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.” – Joyce Brothers
“Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.” – Sophocles
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou
“Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. Go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I’ve learned, that’s the path to happiness.” – Lesley Ann Warren
“It is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.” – H.L. Mencken
“One of the reasons I don’t trust the media is you can’t have a double standard for guys you like and dislike.” – Charles Barkley
“Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.” – Julianne Moore
“I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.” – Stanley Baldwin
“Learn to trust the journey, even when you do not understand it.” – Lolly Daskal
“Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.” – Oliver Cromwell
“Always tell the truth or the truth will tell on you.” – Frank Sonnenberg
“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.” – Suzanne Collins
“You must train your intuition – you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.” – Ingrid Bergman
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.” – Booker T. Washington
“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.” – Aesop
“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 Covey
“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“I read the New York Times but I don’t trust all of it.” – David Byrne
“If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed.” – Alan Watts
“Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!” – Joel Osteen
“Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.” – Rick Warren
“Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.” – Democritus
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” – Albert Einstein
“Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.” – Roy T. Bennett
“It’s good to trust others but not to do so is much better.” – Benito Mussolini
“Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” – Isaac Watts
“Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.” – Brennan Manning
“Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust.” – Albert Einstein
“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.” – Richard Rohr
“Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
“The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Trust is like blood pressure. It’s silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.” – Frank Sonnenberg
“He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.” – Lao Tzu
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” – Corie ten Boom
“I trust myself. You need that to survive.” – Yoko Ono
“Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.” – Lawrence Welk
“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.” – Thomas Paine