QUOTES ON TRUST

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
  Friedrich Nietzsche

 

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
  J.M. Barrie

 

“Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps it's brain?”
  J.K. Rowling

 

“Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.”
  Lady Gaga

 

“I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
  Maya Angelou

“You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. 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,

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
  Maya Angelou

 

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
  Corrie Ten Boom

 

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
  Ernest Hemingway

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
  Thomas Merto

“It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers.”
  Gordon B. Hinckley

 

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
  Oscar Wilde

 

 

“The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?'
Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.”
  J.K. Rowling

“I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.”
  Audrey Niffenegger

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”
  Paulo Coelho

 

“Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired.
Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision.
Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy.
Trust, even when your heart begs you not to.
Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see.
Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring.
Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.
And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.”
  Alysha Speer

 

“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble."
(Mikael Blomkvist)”
  Stieg Larsson

“It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.”
  Jodi Picoult

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
  Ralph Waldo Emerson,

“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.”
  Jodi Picoult, 

“We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”
  Alison Croggon

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
  George MacDonald

“You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry.
"No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.”
  J.K. Rowling

“But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.”
  Francis Chan

 

“Know that love is truly timeless.”
  Mary M. Ricksen

“In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.”
  Sophie Kinsella

 

“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”
  C. JoyBell C.

 

“Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!”
  Joel Osteen

 

“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
  David Levithan,

“If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.”
  Goldie Hawn

“Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.”
  C.S. Lewis

 

“After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.”
  Evelyn Waugh

“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.”
  David Levithan

“Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.”
  Carlos Ruiz Zafó

“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. -Proverbs 3:5-6”
  Anonymous

“Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you’re angry? When someone is angry, you don’t doubt it for a moment. Yet the reverse should be true. We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive.”
  Christopher Pike

“Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.”
  W. Paul Young

“The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.”
  Anonymous 

“She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can’t believe her, even if I could believe her.
”
  Jarod Kintz

“In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.”
  Elizabeth Gilbert

“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”
  Stanley Baldwin

 

“And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to. Do you remember making me swear to repeat all those naughty actions agian, no matter what you said this morning?"
Now that he brought it up, I did recall saying that. Great Betrayed by my own immorality.
"God, Bones...some of that was depraved."
"I'll take that as a compliment." He closed the distance between us."I love you. Don't be ashamed of anything we did, even if your prudery is on life support.”

Jeaniene Frost

 

“Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars.”
  Santosh Kalwar

“Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')”
― Neil Gaiman

“According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly)”
  Deepak Choper

“The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.”
  Elizabeth Gilbert

 

“Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.”
  Julianne Moore

 

“If our testimonies are strong onthis point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questons. We won't ask, 'Why did this happen?' or 'Why doesn't God care about me?' Instead, our questions will become, 'What can I learn from this experience?' or 'How does the Lord want me to handle this?”
  John Bytheway

 

“Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.”
  Santosh Kalwar

“I want my relationship with my girlfriend to be built on trust, not toothpicks, rubber bands, and lentil beans.”
  Jarod Kintz

“He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.”
  Napoleon Bonaparte

 

“Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.”
  Carolyn McCulley

 

“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
  Fred Rogers

 

“But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo.
Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.”
  J.R.R. Tolkien

 

“Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds”
  Cassandra Clare

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”
  Harper Lee

“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

“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
  Alan Wilson Watts

 

“Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.”
  Rick Warren

“My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.”
  Frank O'Hara

“I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't know that in looking back on those he has had tender relations with, a man's heart returns closest to her who was the soul of truth in her conduct. The better class of man, even if caught by airy affectations of dodging and parrying, is not retained by them. A Nemesis attends the woman who plays the game of elusiveness too often, in the utter contempt for her that, sooner or later, her old admirers feel; under which they allow her to go unlamented to her grave.”
  Thomas Hardy

 

 

“Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.”
  Paulo Coelh

“Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are.”
  Susan Forward

“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”
  Suzanne Collins

“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”
  Stephen R. Covey

“I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons”
  Adrienne Rich

 

 

“They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.”
  Christopher Paolini

 

 

“You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.”
  Cassandra Clare

“The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.”
  Aberjhani

“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
  Aesop

 

“Just so you know, I’ve trusted you since camp.”
  Kim Harrison

“MAKING THE LIE MAKE SENSE:

When denial (his or ours) can no longer hold and we finally have to admit to ourselves that we’ve been lied to, we search frantically for ways to keep it from disrupting our lives. So we rationalize. We find “good reasons” to justify his lying, just as he almost always accompanies his confessions with “good reasons” for his lies. He tells us he only lied because…. We tell ourselves he only lied because…. We make excuses for him: The lying wasn’t significant/Everybody lies/He’s only human/I have no right to judge him.

Allowing the lies to register in our consciousness means having to make room for any number of frightening possibilities:

• He’s not the man I thought he was.
• The relationship has spun out of control and I don’t know
what to do
• The relationship may be over.

Most women will do almost anything to avoid having to face these truths. Even if we yell and scream at him when we discover that he’s lied to us, once the dust settles, most of us will opt for the comforting territory of rationalization. In fact, many of us are willing to rewire our senses, short-circuit our instincts and intelligence, and accept the seductive comfort of self-delusion.”
  Susan Forward

“God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.”
  Elisabeth Elliot

 

 

“Peace and trust take years to build and seconds to shatter.”
  Mahogany SilverRain

 

 

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.”
  Frank Crane

 

 

“...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.”
  Albert Camus

 

 

“Trust yourself, you will start to trust others.”
  Santosh Kalwar

“Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.”
  Lemony Snicket

“Trust is not an obsession, it's an extension of love. When we truly love someone, we give them our heart to hold in their hands. And when that love is returned, that very trust is balm to our souls.”
  Julie Lessman

 

 

 

“That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.”
― Sara Zarr

 

“I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.”
  Dean Koontz

“I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.”
  Haruki Murakami

“I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.”
  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

“I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.'
What's that?'
I...trust you.'
Why?'
You'll never hurt me.'
Thank you.'
But...'
But, what?'
I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.'
Why?'
'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back.”
  Avi

“I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.”
  Adrienne Rich

 

“And an unaware witch means a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, and because she's a women that makes her double trouble. Never trust a women."
My mothers a women," I said, suddenly feeling a little angry, "and I trust her."
Mothers are usually women," said the Spook. "And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!”
  Joseph Delaney

“I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.”
  Ana Monnar

 

 

“There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.”
  Katherine Owen

“You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.”
  Janette Rallison

 

 

“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
  Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!”
  Susan Forward

“My son, do not forget my teaching,
But let your heart keep my commandments;
For length of days and years of life
And peace they will add to you.
Do not let kindness and truth leave you;
Bind them around your neck,
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
So you will find favor and good repute
In the sight of God and man.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
And do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight. -Proverbs 3:1-6”
  Anonymous

“As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.”
  Robin McKinley

“Never mistrust, unless given a reason.”
  Sonia Rumzi

 

 

“Love cannot live where there is no trust.”
  Edith Hamilton

“If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.”
  Lao Tzu

 

“Often a Christian man or woman falls prey to that cruel and vexatious spirit, wondering how to find marriage, who, when, where? It is on God that we should wait, as a waiter waits--not for but on the customer--alert, watchful, attentive, with no agenda of his own, ready to do whatever is wanted. 'My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.' (Ps. 62:5 KJV) In Him alone lie our security, our confidence, our trust. A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.”
  Elisabeth Elliot

“Never trust he who trusts everyone.”
  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

 

 

“He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.”
  Anonymous

 

 

Quotes tagged as "trust" (showing 101-150 of 354)

“Well, maybe you won't get hurt, but huff-puff, you won't get loved either.”
― Wolf from The 10th Kingdom

 

“That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult...then comes suspicion, hatred, and fear. If children ran the world, it would be a place of eternal bliss and cheer. Adults run the world; and there is war, and enmity, and destruction unending. Adults who take charge of things muck them up, and then produce a new generation of children and say, "The children are the hope of the future." And they are right. Children are the hope of the future. But adults are the damnation of the present, and children become adults as surely as adults become worm food.
Adults are the death of hope.”
  Peter David

“When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you.”~Cole”
  Tina Carreiro

 

“I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything...so I guess I seem indifferent in that way.
---Yasu”
― Ai Yazawa

“Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt or harmed by the other, at least not deliberately. We trust his or her good intentions, though we know we might be hurt by the way circumstances play out between us. We might say that hurt happens; it’s a given of life. Harm is inflicted; it’s a choice some people make.”
  David Richo

 

 

“Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.”
  Timothy Zahn

“Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn to trust those around you. So I do. One more time.”
  Jay Asher

“Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don't know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more.”
  C. JoyBell C.

“You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.”
  W. Paul Young

“Open up and wake up with blazing beauty just remember no one is perfect and you are the most beautiful creature on this planet.”
  Santosh Kalwar

 

 

“He couldn’t say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he’d learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she’d knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. “It’s fixed. As long as you don’t mind more than a few scars.”
  Nalini Sing

“When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”
  Stephen R. Covey

“Responsibility and Trust -- these two are like Yin and Yang, together perfectly complete, and each one requiring the presence of the other.

The next time you mistrust someone, consider this -- does that person feel responsible for you in any way? If the answer is yes, then go ahead and trust them. Very likely, they are looking out for your best interest.”
― Vera Nazarian

“Well, I sort of don’t trust anybody who doesn’t like Led Zeppelin.”
  Jack White

 

 

“Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.”
  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I have something for you.”
“Yeah? What? Is it shiny?”
They both waited until Indigo had jogged away before resuming their conversation. “So,” Riley asked, “what have you got for me?”
Taking his hand, she placed it palm-down over her heart. It would hurt like a bitch, she thought, but he was hers to protect as much as she was his. “Me.” And she opened up her soul, laid herself bare.”
  Nalini Singh

“Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?”
  Nicholas Sparks

“The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.”
  Brennan Manning

“...Sometimes they open it up like a package in the presence of a person they can talk to,' she said. 'Someone they can trust.' She held out her hands. 'Any person who is carrying a lot of sadness,' she said, 'needs to be able to rest sometimes, and to put it down.”
  Julia A. Schumacher

 

 

“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
  Confucius

 

 

“Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.”
  Joyce Meyer

“There are only a handful of people that you can trust, five to be precise. ”
  Leigh Painter

 

“I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.”
  Troy Kennedy Martin

 

 

“A king who trusts no man is weak.”
  Patricia Briggs

“I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts. Its easy to talk oneself into a decision that has no permanence – easier sometimes than to wait patiently.”
  Elisabeth Elliot

“Reality Check
His lying is not contigent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your fault. Lying is his choice and his problem, and if he makes that choice with you, he will make it with any other woman he’s with. That doesn’t mean you’re an angel and he’s the devil. It does mean that if he doesn’t like certain things about you, he has many ways to address them besides lying. If there are sexual problems between you, there are many resources available to help you. Nothing can change until you hold him responsible and accountable for lying and stop blaming yourself.

The lies we tell ourselves to keep from seeing the truth about our lovers don’t feel like lies. They feel comfortable, familiar, and true. We repeat them like a mantra and cling to them like security blankets, hoping to calm ourselves and regain our sense that the world works the way we believe it ought to.
Self-lies are false friends we look to for comfort and protection—and for a short time they may make us feel better. But we can only keep the truth at bay for so long. Our self-lies can’t erase his lies, and as we’ll see, the longer we try to pretend they can, the more we deepen the hurt.”
  Susan Forward

 

 

“His mom always said that trust was something you earned. And it wasn't something you gave easy. Too often, it was a tool your enemies used to hurt you with. 'Give them nothing, baby. Not until you have no choice. The world is harsh and it is cold. People can be good and decent, but most of them are only out for themselves and they'll hurt anyone they can'.”
  Sherrilyn Kenyon

“What was it about relationships that made you feel so vulnerable? Oh, right. A relationship. In any relationship, you put yourself out there. You exposed all of your sensitive nerve endings and your heart and you just had to hope that you trusted the right person.”
  Courtney Cole

“The accumulation of birthdays is the leading cause of death in the United States and other large land masses. Now while that may not be 100% accurate, it is at least 88% accurate. Actually, the last sentence itself might not have been 100% accurate, but I’m 88% sure it was. Maybe I should just brush up on fractions and percentages before making statements that are liable to hurt the funeral industry, because if birthdays aren’t killing people then it’s bad for the mortality business. And if you can’t trust somebody to die, then you can’t trust somebody. But I’m somebody you can trust. I’m at least 88% trustworthy, at least 88% of the time. 
”
  Jarod Kintz

“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”
  Thomas Paine

 

“Saya akan pikul rahsia itu jika engkau percayakan kepada saya dan saya akan masukkan ke dalam perbendaharaan hati saya dan kemudian saya kunci pintunya erat-erat. Kunci itu akan saya lemparkan jauh-jauh sehingga seorang pun tak dapat mengambilnya kedalam lagi.”
  Hamka, Di Bawah Lindungan Ka'bah

 

“In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.”
  Brad Meltzer

“Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.”
  Terry Goodkind

“And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you were right to be afraid all the time and never feel secure or trust me. I knew it'd be 'See, you're leaving after all when you promised you wouldn't.' I knew it but I'm trying to explain anyway, okay? And I know you probably won't understand this either, but --wait-- just try to listen and maybe absorb this, okay? Ready? Me leaving is not the confirmation of all your fears about me. It is not. It's because of them. Okay? Can you see that? It's your fear I can't take. It's your distrust and fear I've been trying to fight. And I can't anymore. I'm out of gas on it. If I loved you even a little less maybe I could take it. But this is killing me, this constant feeling that I am always scaring you and never making you feel secure. Can you see that?”
― David Foster Wallace

“I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of matter, nor of the good will and honesty of my best and oldest friends. I think all three are (except perhaps the second) far more probable than the alternatives. The case for Christianity in general is well given by Chesterton…As to why God doesn't make it demonstratively clear; are we sure that He is even interested in the kind of Theism which would be a compelled logical assent to a conclusive argument? Are we interested in it in personal matters? I demand from my friend trust in my good faith which is certain without demonstrative proof. It wouldn't be confidence at all if he waited for rigorous proof. Hang it all, the very fairy-tales embody the truth. Othello believed in Desdemona's innocence when it was proved: but that was too late. Lear believed in Cordelia's love when it was proved: but that was too late. 'His praise is lost who stays till all commend.' The magnanimity, the generosity which will trust on a reasonable probability, is required of us. But supposing one believed and was wrong after all? Why, then you would have paid the universe a compliment it doesn't deserve. Your error would even so be more interesting and important than the reality. And yet how could that be? How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?”
  C.S. Lewis

 

 

“I was so afraid of wanting too much that I couldn't trust her handing me a shot at getting it. I don't want to be that senselessly fearful ever again.”
  Tammara Webber

 

“I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.”
  Craig Ferguson

 

“Trust = telling someone about the things that make you sleepless.”
  Hillary Frank

“Trust is always a good idea. For someone else.”
  Sherrilyn Kenyon

 

 

“To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)”
  Jonathan Kellerman

“We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.”
  Frank Crane

 

“I'm slow to trust but I'm quick to love.
I push too hard and I give too much.
I ain't saying I'm perfect,
But I promise I'm worth it.”
  Sugarland

 

“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.”
  Yann Martel

 

 

“He hath never failed thee yet.
Never will His love forget.
O fret not thyself nor let
Thy heart be troubled,
Neither let it be afraid.”
  Amy Wilson-Carmichael

 

 

“I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.”
  David Gemmell

“DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)”
  Frank Chase Jr

“I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't very far.”
  Ilona Andrews

“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.”
  Richard Rohr

 

“Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't.”
  Ally Carter 

 

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?”
  C.S. Lewis

 

 

“Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.”
  Patrick Lencioni

“Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.”
  Lynn Austin

“Hard to trust honesty of inconsistent person.”
  Toba Beta

“What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been Vin, she would have stabbed him in the back at the first opportunity, and that would have probably been the right thing to do. Yet, this girl just continued to trust. It was like finding a beautiful plant growing alone in a field of burnt ash.”
  Brandon Sanderson

 

“Falling in love was as much about receiving as it was giving, was it? It seemed selfish. It was not, though. It was the opposite. Keeping oneself from being loved was to refuse the ultimate gift.
He had thought himself done with romantic love. He had thought himself an incurable cynic.
He was not, though.
He was only someone whose heart and mind, and very soul, had been battered and bruised. It was still - and always - safe to give since there was a certain deal of control to be exerted over giving. Taking, or allowing oneself to receive, was an altogether more risky business.
For receiving meant opening up the heart again.
Perhaps to rejection.
Or disillusionment.
Or pain.
Or even heart break.
It was all terribly risky.
And all terribly necessary.
And of course, there was the whole issue of trust...”
  Mary Balogh

“God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.”
  Elisabeth Elliot

 

“I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.”
  Veronica Roth

“For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Jesus Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened," He assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way. These words are a touching testimony to the genuine humanness of Jesus. He had no romantic notion of the cost of discipleship. He knew that following Him was as unsentimental as duty, as demanding as love.”
  Brennan Manning

“Don't be afraid to be who you are bacause you are the only person who knows you best.”
  Saredo Ali

“If we truly trust noone, we cannot survive.”
  Megan Whalen Turner

“When you get lost in a really strange place,
nothing is more comforting than found your
friend whom you trust and can show the way.”
  Toba Beta

“Are we not perhaps all afraid in some way? If we let Christ enter fully into our lives, if we open ourselves totally to him, are we not afraid that He might take something away from us? Are we not perhaps afraid to give up something significant, something unique, something that makes life so beautiful? Do we not then risk ending up diminished and deprived of our freedom? . . . No! If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed. Only in this friendship do we experience beauty and liberation. And so, today, with great strength and great conviction, on the basis of long personal experience of life, I say to you, dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and he gives you everything. When we give ourselves to him, we receive a hundredfold in return. Yes, open, open wide the doors to Christ – and you will find true life. Amen.”
  Pope Benedict XVI

 

 

“I only know I was born on March 5th because someone told me. I don’t remember myself. So it’s fact based on secondhand information and trust.”
  Jarod Kintz

 

 

“Trust, you give it and you take it away. You believe it with everything you have in you, you allow your heart to trust somebody else. I trusted very few in life, but sometimes you just needed to give in and fight the urge to flee.”
  Holly Hood

 

 

“Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I can't do this alone. Forget your memories. Look into your heart. And if you can find somewhere there, some lingering spark of trust that owes naught to reason, I beg you to speak the word written here.”
  Jacqueline Carey

“Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”
  Patrick Lencioni

“there comes a time
when you have to let go
all the words
all the teaching
and trust the infinite”
  Billy Doyle

“It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.”
  Megan Whalen Turner

“I hope you haven't given up on the S.Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great many sheep in wolves' clothing. If not for S.Q.'s good nature, we'd never have escaped.”
  Trenton Lee Stewart

“You have to trust or you're only living half a life.”
  J.D. Robb 

“Trust to some was placing all your insecurities and beliefs in one single person, and hoping he or she wouldn’t squash them.”
  Holly Hood

“You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.”
  Jefferson Smith

“It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado.”
  Tammara Webber

“For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.”
  Aeschylus

“Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.”
  Helen Hollick

“Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.”
  Laurence Sterne

“There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.'
- Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000”
  George W. Bush

 

“Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you.
Can I trust him?
What do I have to lose?”
  Robin McKinley

“I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to go fuck itself, and those were opposite sides of the same coin.”
  Betsy Lerner

“Maggie squeezes my hand. It’s a silent message that everything will be okay. Somehow I believe her. In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.”
  Simone Elkeles

“The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.”
  Henry Stimson

 

 

“Trust is a fragile word for mortals, and passion a brilliant stone to crack it on. But love, true love, is the velvet glove that catches fragile trust before it's gone.”
  Gay N. Blanchard

“He always believed that people live up or down to the amount of trust you put in them.”
  Hilary Duff

“Don't sign your name
between worlds,

surmount
the manifold of meanings,

trust the tearstain,
learn to live.”
― Paul Celan, Glottal Stop

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“Our love has been the thread through the
labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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“One must gauge one's trust carefully.”
  Jacqueline Carey

“The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be- and when they're not, we cry.”
 Jewish Proverb

 

“It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.”
  Jodi Picoult

“Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.”
  Alison Croggon

“It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves not only for what you are now but for what you have the power to become. Trust in the Lord as He leads you along. He has things for you to do that you won't know about now but that will unfold later. If you stay close to Him, You will have some great adventures. You will live in a time where instead of sometimes being fulfilled, many of them will actually be fulfilled. The Lord will unfold your future bit by bit.”
  Neal A. Maxwell

 

 

 

 

“He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from his home. He'd never been able to trust. He could never give that last small piece - all that was left of his humanity - into someone else's keeping. And now there was Rikki. She let him be whatever he had to be to survive. She didn't ask anything of him. There was no hidden motive. No agenda. Just acceptance. She was different - imperfect, or so she thought - and she knew what it was like to fight to carve out a space for herself. She was willing for him to do thar.”
  Christine Feehan

“Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)”

 Markus Zusak

“If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed”
  Alan Watts

 

 

“Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.”
  Jane Austen

 

 

“The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.”
  Dave Barry

“He reached out and intertwined our hands. Gently urging me forward he whispered, “Have I lost you love?”
  Erin Jamison

“Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.”
  David Gemmell 

 

“Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!”
  Héloïse d'Argenteuil,

“Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai.
On my shoulders I support the sky.
Trust me to know and to do what is best,
And I will take care of the rest.
But trust is the color of a dark seed growing.
Trust is the color of a heart's blood flowing.
Trust is the color of a soul's last breath.
Trust is the color of death.

Give me your trust said the queen on her throne,
for I must bear the burden alone.
Trust me to lead and to judge and to rule, and no man will think you a fool.
But trust is the sound of the grave-dog's bark.
Trust is the sound of betrayal in the dark.
Trust is the sound of a soul's last breath.
Trust is the sound of death.”
  Robert Jordan,

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.”
  Martha Nussbaum