Trust Quotes

“Trust people,” he would tell me, “until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back.”

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.”

“That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.”

“My every impulse bends to what is right. Not iron, trust me, the heart with my breast. I am all compassion.”

“I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express.”

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

“The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.”

“The man who wants you to trust him is the one you must fear the most.”

“To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.”

“Discipline must come from trust and confidence.”

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

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

“I will not trust you, I,
Nor longer stay in your curst company.
Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray,
My legs are longer though, to run away.”

“He came in every night and sat with her. The first couple of times, he simply stayed—a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered, ‘Shhh, I’m here, it’s all right.’ After three weeks, he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man’s gentleness, his thereness. The girl knew from the outset that Hans Huberman would always appear midscream, and he would not leave.”

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

“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.”