Trust Quotes

Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.

Jewish Prove

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

Horace, Odes

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Foster C. McClellan

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann von Goethe

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #8455

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near.

Helen Rowland

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Democritus

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Henry David Thoreau

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Charles Kingsley

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

Rita Mae Brown

We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Author Unknown

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, ... to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

Ernest Hemingway

We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him - - But we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration - - we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.

Albert E. Cliffe

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 35 Bible

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

John Collins

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

Homer, The Iliad

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

George Eliot

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

H. L. Mencken

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003

Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.

John Fellows Akers

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Frank Crane

Trust one who has gone through it.

Virgil, The Aeneid

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Jeseph Joubert

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson