Trust - Quotes & Sayings

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

John Wooden

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Democritus

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he's going to do, even when it's hard - especially when it's hard.

Michelle Obama

Without trust, no organization can sustain innovation because without trust, no one is willing to take the risks that innovation requires.

Helen Johnson-Leipold

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Rita Mae Brown

My mistake in my relationships has been to feel that I can do it all on my own: 'I don't need a man.' That is definitely a mistake. Women generally want to feel loved and appreciated. It's something that I am working on every day, trust me! It's a challenge for me to do that.

Miranda Kerr

We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.

Felipe VI of Spain

For me, it's common sense to treat other people like you would like to be treated. Empathy is a broad concept, but how do you get there? People get there differently. I get there by truly building a little trust and connection. You'll tell me something, I'll act on it, and then that builds on itself.

Oscar Munoz

I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

Tammy Faye Bakker

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Alan Watts

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

Henri Nouwen

It is important not to trust people too much.

V. S. Naipaul

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Marilyn Monroe

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Christopher Hitchens

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

Billy Connolly

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

W. C. Fields

Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.

Douglas Conant

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

D. Elton Trueblood

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Horace

The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.

Sarah Pinborough

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Pope Francis

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

Calvin Coolidge

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

Sam Walton

We're building a lifelong relationship with people, and every great relationship has to be built on trust.

Angela Ahrendts

Leaders must establish common purpose and build trust within an organization.

Stanley A. McChrystal

I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but I think you gotta trust people from your gut.

Vin Diesel

Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate.

Sheri L. Dew

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

Jim Valvano

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

Anton Chekhov

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

Before you can trust your team to make decisions better than you would have, you need to build their capability to connect the dots.

Chris Fussell

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

Brennan Manning

But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.

Kate Bush

I just feel like it's believing in your instincts or believing in yourself to do something crazy. That's why it's important to believe in yourself and trust yourself.

Shanice Williams

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

Alexander Hamilton

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

Joyce Meyer

Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.

Adam Grant

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

Simon Sinek

Trust is central to an economy that works.

Stephen Covey

If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.

Robert H. Schuller

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

Anna Quindlen

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

Doris Lessing

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

Blaise Pascal

There are so many different ways to lead. The most important thing is to be genuine. To have people around you trust you, trust in what you stand for and who you are. And I think that if people watch you day in and day out and believe in your motives and they believe that you set a high standard for yourself.

Steve Nash

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

Aeschylus

I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni