The glue that holds all relationships together—including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
—Brian Tracy (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
—Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Austrian Psychiatrist
Trust, like the soul, never returns, once it is gone.
—Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer
When I’m trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
—Shakti Gawain (1948–2018) American Author, Speaker, Consultant
We’re all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.
—Alice Walker (b.1944) American Novelist, Activist
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.
—Joyce Brothers (1927–2013) American Psychologist, Advice Columnist
It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.
—Henry Fielding (1707–54) English Novelist, Dramatist
Trust your hunches… Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.
—Joyce Brothers (1927–2013) American Psychologist, Advice Columnist
The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian Philosopher
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
—Andrew V. Mason
I trust in Nature for the stable laws
Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant
And Autumn garner to the end of time.
—Robert Browning (1812–89) English Poet
He who trusts all things to chance, makes a lottery of his life
—Common Proverb
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet
Trust one who has tried.
—Virgil (70–19 BCE) Roman Poet
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
—Henry L. Stimson (1867–1950) American Statesman, Lawyer
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
—Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian Short-Story Writer
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism… It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will…
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
—Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) British Head of State, Military Leader
Don’t trust the person who has broken faith once.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected—for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?
—William Cowper (1731–1800) English Anglican Poet, Hymn writer
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.
—Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American Filmmaker
Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
In God we trust, all others we virus scan.
—Unknown
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
Trust one who has gone through it.
—Virgil (70–19 BCE) Roman Poet
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