Trust Quotes

"Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team."

Patrick Lencioni

"Trust is the conviction that the leader means what he says."

Peter Drucker

"Trust is like blood pressure. It's silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly."

Frank Sonnenberg

"Trust is built in very small moments."

Brené Brown

"Trust is choosing to make something important to you vulnerable to the actions of someone else."

Charles Feltman

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

Stephen King

"A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone."

Cardinal de Retz

"Trust none; for oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes."

"We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy."

Walter Anderson

"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms."

Sophocles

"Our distrust is very expensive."

"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."

Kahlil Gibran

"Trust no one without testing; after testing, trust what is fit to be trusted."

Thiruvalluvar

"To trust one untested, and to doubt one tested and trusted – both bring endless sorrow."

Thiruvalluvar

"Weigh a person's virtues and faults, and judge them by whichever is greater."

Thiruvalluvar

"Trust begets trust, love begets love."

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."

"Trust not to the so-called rich, they are more dead than alive. The hope lies in you – in the meek, the lowly, but the faithful."

"Do not snap the thread of love, says Rahim; once broken it will not rejoin, and if rejoined, a knot remains."

Rahim

"If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star, you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy."

Terry Pratchett

"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together."

Dinah Craik

"Love and trust, in the space between what's said and what's heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world."

Fred Rogers

"Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' and then do it."

Duane Michals

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

Samuel Johnson

"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."