Trust Quotes

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

Henry Ward Beeche

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

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945

I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.

Janina Atkins

Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.

Alan Watts

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik H. Erikson

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

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

A man without trust is a man without life.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Samuel Johnson

Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Georges Duhamel

But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

D. H. Lawrence

Trust one who has gone through it.

Virgil, The Aeneid

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.

Lao Tzu

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Eric Hoffe

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Pope John XXIII

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis

It is only by not trusting that you turn someone into a liar.

Tao Le Ching

How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

Sterne

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavou

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Agatha Christie

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

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

Henry L. Stimson

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Barbra Streisand

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841

Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. Lesson of trust.

Numbers 21: 7, Holy Bible

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Tyron Edwards

When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07 - 08 - 04

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

John Collins

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

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

Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.

R. D. Hitchcock

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom