quotations about trust
Trust is an evolving and fragile phenomenon that can be destroyed even faster than it can be created.
ELLEN ENKEL
"To Get Consumers to Trust AI, Show Them Its Benefits", Harvard Business Review, April 17, 2017
A sharper or more bitter sorrow prove--
Hath Fate a keener thrust,
Than when his dart reveals that one we love
We cannot trust?
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
"Love's Petition"
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
FRANK CRANE
attributed, Business Education World, Vol. 15
Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.
AYN RAND
Atlas Shrugged
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.
MITCH ALBOM
Tuesdays with Morrie
Extreme distrust is not less harmful than its opposite; the greater part of men are useless to him who will not risk being deceived.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES
Reflections and Maxims
Trust is won not given.
TOBSHA LEARNER
The Witch of Cologne
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The Marquis of Lossie
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Put not your trust in princes.
BIBLE
Psalms 146:3
Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It's what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don't let them take that from you.
SHERRILYN KENYON
Invincible
Sudden trust brings sudden repentance.
LESTYN AP GWRGAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
Never trust he who trusts everyone.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
The most perfect communion of soul with soul, the most exquisite fellowship of mind with mind, are possible only where undoubted trust and undying love are possible, nowhere else. Nothing so ennobles and purifies a spirit as the exercise of faith in somebody.
REUEN THOMAS
Thoughts for the Thoughtful
Confiding Trust, fair flow'r of youthful minds!
Puts forth its simple blossoms all too soon,
Caught by the first alluring beams of spring;
And, dazzled by their bright and sunny glare,
Clings to the tendril promises of words,
Not deeming they are vain, and false as fair;
Till disappointment's nipping frost appears,
And withers all its impulses of life!
C. B. LANGSTON
"Dissapointment"
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do: we may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
Trust thy self, and another shall not betray thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1739
There simply is no "us" without Trust.
SHEENA AMIN
"Trust vs. Love: 7 Truths To Why Trust Is More Valuable Than Love", Huffington Post, May 8, 2017
Trust is not like electric light that you switch on and off. You build it up over time and it can be forfeited very quickly.
RAYMOND PARSONS
"Trust not electric light that can be switched on", Moneyweb, May 11, 2017