trust

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

I trust no one, not even myself.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

2 other wisdom & wit from Martin Van Buren

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

12 views from George MacDonald

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

14 views from Joseph Conrad

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

8 sayings from Stephen Leacock

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

24 wisdom & wit from Carl Sandburg

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

23 sayings from Helen Rowland

I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.

9 quotes from Barry Goldwater

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.

9 other thoughts from Ethel Merman

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

13 quotes from Alexander Hamilton

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

26 wisdom & wit from E. M. Forster

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

4 other quotes from William Gurnall

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

67 more quotes from Francis Bacon

I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.

2 sayings from William Halsey

You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.

8 more views from Jane Seymour

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

11 other quotes from Robert E. Lee

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

56 quotes from Khalil Gibran

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

19 other views from Anton Chekhov

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

16 quotes from Alan Watts

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

36 quotes from Lord Byron

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

2 more thoughts from Frank Crane

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

24 other quotes from W. C. Fields

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

8 views from James Dean

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

6 other wisdom & wit from Harold MacMillan

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

14 sayings from Susan B. Anthony

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

3 more views from Robert Baden-Powell

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

2 other quotes from Edward Coke

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

6 other quotes from Grover Cleveland

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

11 more wisdom & wit from Rene Descartes

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

9 sayings from Lawrence Welk

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

81 other views from William Shakespeare

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

81 quotes from William Shakespeare

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

6 quotes from Harvey S. Firestone

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

7 quotes from Corrie Ten Boom

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

10 other sayings from Booker T. Washington

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

5 quotes from Oliver Cromwell

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

7 thoughts from Corrie Ten Boom

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

Put your trust in God but be sure to keep your powder dry.

5 thoughts from Oliver Cromwell

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

22 other thoughts from Robert Browning

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

6 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Spock

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

43 more quotes from Alexander Pope

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.

2 thoughts from Joe Slovo

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

135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.

2 wisdom & wit from John McKinley

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

23 views from E. W. Howe

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

57 other quotes from Blaise Pascal

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe

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

2 wisdom & wit from Georges Duhamel

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

3 more sayings from Ruth Benedict

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

9 more views from Charles Spurgeon

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

3 more quotes from Jerry Rubin

Disarmament requires trust.

6 views from Gustav Heinemann

Trust is the first step to love.

3 sayings from Munshi Premchand

Trust in God - she will provide.

2 thoughts from Emmeline Pankhurst

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

3 views from Isaac Watts

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

3 quotes from Finley Peter Dunne

Trust cannot be commanded and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

6 quotes from Gustav Heinemann

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

17 quotes from Calvin Coolidge

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

6 thoughts from Gustav Heinemann

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

8 quotes from Benito Mussolini

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

14 sayings from Edward Young

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

8 more wisdom & wit from Edward Hopper

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

35 views from Ernest Hemingway

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

31 views from Eric Hoffer

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

10 other thoughts from Arthur Ashe

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

4 sayings from Stanley Baldwin

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

63 sayings from Samuel Johnson

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

4 quotes from Agatha Christie

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

2 sayings from Mary Renault

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

11 thoughts from Graham Greene

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

15 other views from William Penn

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

8 more thoughts from Ezra Pound

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

4 quotes from James Herriot

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

13 thoughts from Andrew Carnegie

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

5 wisdom & wit from Marianne Moore

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

3 more quotes from Gertrude Jekyll

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

2 more views from Eric Sevareid

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

12 quotes from James Broughton

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

9 thoughts from Pope John XXIII

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

6 other quotes from Johann Kaspar Lavater