300+ Trust Quotes and Trust Issues Sayings in a Relationship

Trust Quotes and Trust Issues Sayings

  • “Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.” —Oliver Cromwell
  • “People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.” —Tim Ferris
  • “Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.” —Agatha Christie
  • “Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust.” —Albert Einstein
  • “The worst part about being lied to is knowing that you weren’t worth the truth.” —Mishaela
  • “Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.” —Arthur Ashe
  • “A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.” —Gregory David Roberts
  • “Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.” —Don Miguel Ruiz
  • “Never trust the version that people give of themselves — it is utterly unreliable.” —Robert Greene
  • “It is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.” —H.L. Mencken
  • “Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.” —Roy T. Bennett
  • “There’s never a reason to trust someone. If there’s a reason, then it’s not trust.” —Gerald Morris
  • “A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.” —Harold Macmillan
  • “We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.” —Lord Byron
  • “A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.” —Thomas Paine
  • “Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.” —Roy T. Bennett
  • “In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.” —Brad Meltzer
  • “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, and no trust.” —Zig Ziglar
  • “Sometimes you don’t know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.” —Demi Lovato
  • “Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.” —David Gemmell
  • “To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.” —E.M. Forster
  • “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.” —Jodi Picoult
  • “Trust is like a vase, once it’s broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.” —Walter Anderson
  • “The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
  • “Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.” —Democritus
  • “It was a mistake,” you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.” —David Levithan
  • “If you give your trust to a person who does not deserve it, you actually give him the power to destroy you.” —khaled saad
  • “The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.” —Rene Descates
  • “One of the reasons I don’t trust the media is you can’t have a double standard for guys you like and dislike.” —Charles Barkley
  • “If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.” —Selena Gomez
  • “We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.” —Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
  • “You must train your intuition – you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.” —Ingrid Bergman
  • “Trust is only gained when one person risks and doesn’t get harmed. It grows as both people increasingly risk and don’t get harmed in the process.” —Glen Williams
  • “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
  • “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “Trust your own instincts, go inside, and follow your heart. Right from the start. Go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I’ve learned, that’s the path to happiness.” —Lesley Ann Warren

Quotes about Trust Issues

  • “Loneliness, trust issues, depression, suppressed anger. These are some symptoms given from heartbreak.”
  • “I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.” —Troy Kennedy-Martin
  • “Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.” —Gustave Flaubert
  • “You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.” —Marilyn Monroe
  • “Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.” —George Macdonald
  • “A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card.” —Edgar A. Shoaff
  • “Trust means everything but once you break the trust, then the sorry means nothing.” —Author Unknown
  • “Trust is like a piece of paper, once it’s crumpled it can’t be perfect again.” —Miranda Lee
  • “Raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies are the main reason I have trust issues.” —Unknown Author
  • “How can I trust you when you keep on running away every time I untie you?” —Unknown Author
  • “Trust is like a sticker, once removed, it does not sticky anymore as it did before.” —Unknown Author
  • “Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.” —Eubie Blake
  • “Never trust anyone but yourself, because in the end that’s all you’re going to have: yourself.” —T. Walker
  • “Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • “I never trusted anybody at all. I don’t know why it was so hard, I just didn’t.” —Marianne Faithfull
  • “Sometimes, the people that love you the most turn out to be the people you will trust the least.”
  • “One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.” —E.M. Forster
  • “Trust in a relationship is very crucial. Without trust, a relationship cannot last as a healthy and happy bond.” —Alana Johnson
  • “Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.” —Shelley Long
  • “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.”
  • “Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “I’m sorry I have trust issues, but when you give someone everything and they throw it away, something inside of you breaks.”
  • “Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.” —R. Williams
  • “When someone breaks your trust. Don’t feel stupid for trusting them. You didn’t do anything wrong, they’re just an untrustworthy person.” —Unknown Author
  • “People ask me why it’s so hard to trust people, and I ask them why it is so hard to keep a promise.” —Unknown Author
  • “Trust takes time to build, seconds to lose and twice as long to regain as it did to build in the first place.” —Unknown Author
  • “People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.” —Shannon L. Adler
  • “Nowhere in the bible did it say, Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust. If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day.” —Shannon L. Alder
  • “Trust is something that is difficult to establish. It is very fragile that needs to be taken care of. Once trust breaks or shatters into pieces, it is very difficult to rebuild it.”
  • “One error a trust-breaker makes when attempting to rebuild trust with another, is refusing to take full ownership for what they did. Learn not to blame, project, or minimize what you have done.” —Karen Wells
  • “Not being able to let go and trust those around you can be incredibly stressful. You will be constantly questioning the actions of those around you, never feel in control and generally unhappy.” —David Cannell
  • “An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.” —Stendhal, The Red and the Black
  • “It is so sad how some people have been through so many negative experiences to the point that when they experience an act of kindness from some caring and loving people, they become a little or very suspicious about it.”
  • “Earning trust is not about proving a point; if you govern your self-integrity and lifestyle enough to trust yourself, it becomes self-evident enough to invite those who will volunteer to entrust you with what’s valuable to their hearts.” —Wayne Chirisa
  • “The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.” —Henry L. Stimson

Funny Quotes About Trust

  • “In God we trust, all others we virus scan.” —Unknown
  • “The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.” —Winston Churchill
  • “Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” —J.K. Rowling
  • “I’m suspicious of people who don’t like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn’t like a person.” —Bill Murray
  • “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” —Ernest Hemingway
  • “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
  • “Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.” —George Carlin

Deep Quotes about Trust and Trust Issues

  • “Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.” —Laurence Sterne
  • “I never trust people with no appetite. It’s like they’re always holding something back on you.” —Haruki Murakami
  • “It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.” —René Descartes
  • “It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.” —Samuel Johnson
  • “No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.” —Toni Morrison
  • “I used to take on trust a man’s deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man’s words I go on to observe his deeds.” —Confucius
  • “Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.” —Immanuel Kant
  • “In following the Way, the noble-minded treasure three things: a manner free of violence and arrogance, a countenance full of sincerity and trust, a voice free of vulgarity and impropriety.” —Confucius
  • “It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.” —Bono
  • “I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” —Maya Angelou
  • “In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.” —Seneca
  • “Very often inertia, selfishness, and vanity play the greatest role in our trust in others; inertia when we prefer to trust somebody else, in order not to investigate, be vigilant, or act ourselves; selfishness when the desire to speak about our own affairs tempts us to confide in someone else; vanity when it concerns something that we are proud of.” —Arthur Schopenhauer

Inspirational Quotes about Trust

  • “Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” —Kahlil Gibran
  • “Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words.” —Trust movement. Alfred Adler
  • “Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.” —Georg Feuerstein
  • “Whatever the clouds plan to do; I always trust in the sun which never fails to come out.” —Munia Khan
  • “To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.” —David Byrne
  • “If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.” —Dalai Lama XIV
  • “Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of human strength; there is no good to be done without it.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
  • “Remember, you can’t do all the work. Be content to help a patient realize what must be done and then trust his or her own desire for growth and change.” —Irvin D. Yalom
  • “For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you.” —Alan Watts
  • “Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is like when you trust yourself to the water. You don’t grab hold of the water when you swim, because if you do you will become stiff and tight in the water, and sink. You have to relax, and the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging, and holding on.” —Alan Watts

Quotes on Trust Broken

  • “For trust not him that hath once broken faith.” —William Shakespeare
  • “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” —William Blake
  • “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.” —Warren Buffett
  • “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it’s broken, but you can still see the crack.” —Lady Gaga

Quotes about Trusting God

  • “Above all, trust in the slow work of God.” —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • “Faith is, above all, openness – an act of trust in the unknown.” —Alan Watts
  • “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” —Corie ten Boom
  • “Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.” —Brennan Manning
  • “He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.” —Hannah Whitall Smith
  • “Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.” —Yann Martel
  • “Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] – even in the midst of trial.” —Swindoll Charles R.
  • “What is needed is an impossible situation where one has to renounce one’s own will and one’s own wit and do nothing but wait and trust to the impersonal power of growth and development.” —Carl Jung
  • “It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes about Trust in a Relationship

  • “When mistrust comes in, loves goes out.” —Irish Proverb
  • “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” —Stephen King
  • “Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.” —Robert E. Lee
  • “People follow leaders by choice. Without trust, at best you get compliance.” —Jesse Lyn Stoner
  • “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” —Ernest Hemingway
  • “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” —Albert Einstein
  • “Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.” —Joyce Brothers
  • “Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.” —Julianne Moore
  • “I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice in giving a failure another chance.” —James Cash Penney
  • “Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.” —Eric Sevareid
  • “Trust is like blood pressure. It’s silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.” —Frank Sonnenberg
  • “Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.” —Christopher Hitchens
  • “There’s ways you can trust an enemy you can’t always trust a friend. An enemy’s never going to betray your trust.” —Daniel Abraham
  • “Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.” —Booker t. Washington
  • “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
  • “The glue that holds all relationships together — including the relationship between the leader and the led — is trust, and trust is based on integrity.” —Brian Tracy
  • “It takes two to do the trust tango–the one who risks (the trustor) and the one who is trustworthy (the trustee); each must play their role.” —Charles H. Green
  • “Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities of which they were previously unaware.” —David Armistead
  • “Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.” —Gary Hamel

Quotes about Trust Issues in a Relationship

  • “When TRUST is broken, SORRY means NOTHING.” —Unknown
  • “Loyalty isn’t grey. It’s black and white. You’re either loyal completely, or not loyal at all.
  • “Never lie to someone who trusts you and never trust someone that lies to you.” —Deanna Wadsworth
  • “It’s not about who’s real to your face; It’s about who stays loyal behind your back.” —Anonymous
  • “When you make a commitment, you build hope. When you keep it, you build trust.” —Stephen M. R. Covey
  • “Nothing destroys trust faster than making and breaking a promise. Conversely, nothing builds trust more than keeping a promise.” —Stephen R. Covey
  • “The most expensive thing in the world is trust. It can take years to earn and just a matter of seconds to lose.” —Unknown
  • “If you succeed in cheating someone, don’t think that person is a fool. Realize that the person trusted you more than you deserved.” —Anonymous
  • “A relationship without trust is like a car without gas. You can stay in it all you want, but it won’t go anywhere.” —Unknown
  • “Trust is like a sticker. Once it is removed, it may stick again, but not as strong as it holds when you first applied it.” —Unknown
  • “Breaking someone’s trust is like crumpling up a perfect piece of paper. You can smooth it over, but it’s never going to be the same again.” —Anonymous

Movie Quotes about Trust

  • “Just trust those around you and trust yourself.” –Johnny Simmons
  • “I believe in you, Elsa. More than anyone or anything.” –Kristen Bell (Anna)
  • “I don’t trust happiness. I never did, I never will.” –Robert Duvall (Mac Sledge)
  • “I trusted you, loved you, and you betrayed me!” –SIR SEAN CONNERY (King Arthur)
  • “Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.” –James Dean
  • “I don’t trust any bastard who doesn’t drink. People who don’t drink are afraid of revealing themselves.” –Humphrey Bogart
  • “You should never believe anybody who goes around telling the truth. They’re not to be trusted.” –Anthony George Newley (Matthew Mugg)
  • “Do you know how hard it is to trust people when your whole childhood was bullshit and manipulation?” –David Castañeda (Diego Hargreeves)
  • “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.” –Frank Crane
  • “I know you never lie to me. I believe you. You’re not lying. It’s worse than lying. You’ve forgotten.” –Charles Boyer (Gregory Anton)
  • “Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one’s all right, he turns legit.” –Sam Jaffe (Doc Erwin Riedenschneider)
  • “I don’t want you to put a penny of that stuff in the bank. You know, I don’t trust those Illuminati motherfuckers.” –Matthew Mcconaughey (Moondog)
  • “Trust, responsibility, taking the weight for your choices and feelings, and spending the rest of your life living up to them. And above all, not hurting the object of your love.” –Philip Anthony Hopkins (William Parrish)
  • “If I said it once, I said it a thousand times, I don’t care they’re Irish. I don’t care they’re Catholic. If there’s one person you can’t trust in this life, its millionaires’ kids.” –Al Pacino (Jimmy Hoffa)
  • “Do not put your faith in a cape and a hood, they will not protect you the way that they should. And take extra care with strangers, even flowers have their dangers, and though scary is exciting, nice is different than good.” –Lilla Crawford (Little Red Riding Hood)

Quotes about Betrayal of Trust in a Relationship

  • “Betrayal can only happen if you love.” —John le Carre
  • “Love means exposing yourself to the pain of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust.” —Unknown
  • “Trust lies at the core of love; there can be no true love without trust.” —M.K. Soni
  • “I trust you: That’s huge. That’s truth. That’s real love. Everyone uses ‘I love you’ so loosely.” —Justin Chatwin
  • “If offering apologies and making promises fixed broken trust, there’d be no broken trust left to fix.” —Tim Cole
  • “We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone—but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.” —Walter Anderson
  • “Betrayal is the worst… and the key to moving past it is to identify what led up to it in the first place.” —Charles J. Orlando
  • “You want to believe that there’s one relationship in life that’s beyond betrayal. A relationship that’s beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn’t.” —Caleb Carr
  • “A relationship without trust is like having a phone with no service. And what do you do with a phone with no service? You play games.” —Unknown
  • “You don’t repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently.” —Patricia Hewitt
  • “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

Quotes about Lack of Trust

  • “Remember that underlying all our fears is a lack of trust in ourselves.” —Susan Jeffers
  • “Keeping things ‘just in case’ indicates a lack of trust in the future.” —Karen Kingston
  • “The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation.” —Henry B. Eyring
  • “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect.” —John Calvin
  • “Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.” —Lee Roberson
  • “I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There’s no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence.” —Rumi
  • “When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.” —Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
  • “The older I’ve gotten, I really do feel that it’s a lack of trust that I see in people and that’s why they don’t follow their dreams – because they don’t trust anything.” —Kim Basinger
  • “It’s a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.” —John Robert Seeley
  • “Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.” —Sam Harris
  • “The core of original sin, then is LOT – Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a ‘negative self-image,’ but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. … positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.” —Robert H. Schuller

Quotes about Honesty and Trust

  • “Without trust, communication and honesty in any relationship – There is nothing to build upon.
  • “There’s no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Give the person you love honesty, respect, trust and passion or be prepared to watch from the sidelines as someone else does it.
  • “In a relationship, honesty and trust must exist. If they don’t there’s no point of loving. So if you can’t afford to be honest, stay single.
  • “If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.” —Dalai Lama XIV

Quotes about Faith and Trust

  • “All it takes is faith and trust.” —Disney, Peter Pan
  • “For trust not him that hath once broken faith.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Hope is great but Faith is the greatest! – Ephantus Mwenda
  • “Don’t trust the person who has broken faith once.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Faith is, above all, openness – an act of trust in the unknown.” —Alan Watts
  • “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” —J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
  • “Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.” —Yann Martel
  • “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
  • “When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.” —Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
  • “It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • “Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is like when you trust yourself to the water. You don’t grab hold of the water when you swim, because if you do you will become stiff and tight in the water, and sink. You have to relax, and the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging, and holding on.” —Alan Watts

Quotes about Trusting God in Difficult Times

  • “Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” —(Matthew 19:26 NIV)
  • “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” —(Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV)
  • “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:4-7 NIV)
  • “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” —(Matthew 11:28-30 NIV)

Short Quotes about Trust and Trust Issues

  • “Trust but verify.” —Ronald Reagan
  • “Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.” —Sophocles
  • “The treacherous are ever distrustful.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
  • “Consider everyone trustworthy until they prove otherwise.”
  • “Trust is built with consistency.” —Lincoln Chafee
  • “What loneliness is lonelier than distrust?” —George Eliot
  • “Those who trust us educate us.” —George Eliot
  • “Trust your vibes; energy doesn’t lie.” —Paulo Coelho
  • “Trust one who has gone through it.” —Virgil
  • “Men trust their ears less than their eyes.” —Herodotus
  • “Trust everybody, but cut the cards.” —Finley Peter Dunne
  • “Only those you trust can betray you.” —Terry Goodkind
  • “I got trust issues because people got lying issues.”
  • “What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” –George Eliot
  • “I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.” —Maya Angelou
  • “Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.” —Santosh Kalwar
  • “It’s a delight to trust somebody so completely” —Jeff Goldblum
  • “I trust myself. You need that to survive.” —Yoko Ono
  • “Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.” —Robert C. Solomon
  • “A king who trusts no man is weak.” —Patricia Briggs
  • “You can only trust yourself… and barely that.” —Paige Wilson
  • “Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.” —Aesop
  • “The deep roots never doubt spring will come.” —Marty Rubin
  • “A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him.” —Graham Greene
  • “Trust is built when no one is looking.” —Seth Godin
  • “You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.” —Indira Gandhi
  • “One should never go by what people say.” —Agatha Christie
  • “Don’t trust the person who has broken faith once.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Don’t trust the heart, it wants your blood.” —Stanisław Jerzy Lec
  • “If you can`t trust anyone else, trust God.” —Taylor E. Snyder
  • “Don’t trust people who tell you other people’s secrets.” —Dan Howell
  • “If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.” —Lao Tzu
  • “Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.” —John Churton Collins
  • “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.” —Maria V. Snyder
  • “They that trust in the Lord shall never be confounded!” —George Muller
  • “He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.” —Lao Tzu
  • “To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” —George MacDonald
  • “Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” —Isaac Watts
  • “You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.” —Anton Chekhov
  • “The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.” —Stanley Baldwin
  • “Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.” —Paolo Coelho
  • “Always tell the truth or the truth will tell on you.” —Frank Sonnenberg
  • “The primary reason people believe in anything is because others believe.” —Brian Norgard
  • “Because he has nothing to prove, people can trust his words.” —Lao Tzu
  • “Trust is built when someone is vulnerable and not taken advantage of.” —Bob Vanourek
  • “When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.” —Patrick Lencioni
  • “Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.” —Warren Bennis
  • “Learn to trust the journey, even when you do not understand it.” —Lolly Daskal
  • “It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.” —English Proverb
  • “Never trust someone who lies to you. Never lie to someone who trusts you.” —Mandy
  • “It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.” —Benito Mussolini
  • “I read the New York Times but I don’t trust all of it.” —David Byrne

Quotes on Trusting Yourself

  • “Self-trust is the essence of heroism.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Self-trust is the first secret of success.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” —Maya Angelou
  • “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” —Benjamin Spock
  • “Take no one’s word for anything, including mine – but trust your experience.” —James Baldwin
  • “A man who doesn’t trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.” —Cardinal de Retz
  • “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” —Michel de Montaigne
  • “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” —Rumi
  • “You must train your intuition – you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.” —Ingrid Bergman
  • “The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. He prefers what is within to what is without.” —Lao-Tzu
  • “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
  • “It is hard to see why we should not turn round and mistrust this very mistrust. Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself? –Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Quotes about Trust in Love

  • “The best proof of love is trust.” —Joyce Brothers
  • “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” —Maya Angelou
  • “Find someone to love and to get lost in. Find someone to depend on and to trust fully.” —Debasish Mridha
  • “Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.” —Jodi Picoult
  • “Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” —Khalil Gibran
  • “I believe that in matters of the heart there is no such thing as compromise. Love means that you give each other everything.” —Milan Kundera

Quotes about Trust and Friendship

  • “Friendship makes you feel as one with your friend.” —Tommaso d’Aquino
  • “The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • “Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.” —Doris Lessing
  • “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” —Confucius
  • “When he in whom you confide is one who does not fail his friends, you may trust him fully.” —Confucius
  • “Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits. After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.” —Seneca
  • “Be courteous to all but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.” —George Washington
  • “But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.” —Seneca
  • “When you open yourself up mentally, you do so only with someone you trust from the bottom of your heart, someone you feel very close to. To open yourself up in this way is an important step in overcoming mental problems.” —Dalai Lama XIV
  • “In a good season one trusts life; in a bad season one only hopes, But they are of the same essence: they are the mind’s indispensable relationship with other minds, with the world, and with time. Without trust, a man lives, but not a human life; without hope, he dies.” —Ursula K. Le Guin

Quotes about Trust No one

  • “Like everybody and trust no one.”
  • “I don’t trust words, I trust actions.”
  • “Act like you trust people, but do not.”
  • “I trust no one, not even myself.” —Joseph Stalin
  • “Love cannot live where there is no trust.” —Edith Hamilton
  • “Don’t trust what you see, even salt looks like sugar.”
  • “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.” —William Penn
  • “Three things you should never break: promises, trust, and someone’s heart.”
  • “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.”
  • “It is important not to trust people too much.” —V. S. Naipaul
  • “Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer care.”
  • “Never trust people from what they say, trust them from what they do.”
  • “Disappointments are not always meant to hurt. Sometimes they are best treated as lessons.”
  • “I trusted you but now your words mean nothing because your actions spoke the truth.”
  • “In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.” —Sophie Kinsella
  • “Sometimes trusting people is like a gamble, you really never know who are true to you.”
  • “When you betray the one you love, it would be hard to trust that person gain.”
  • “Relationships are about trust. If you have to play detective, then it’s time to move on.”
  • “I’m a good enough person to forgive you, but not stupid enough to trust you again.”
  • “A person who cannot be trusted with trivial things could not be also trusted with bigger secret.”
  • “You might not sure about whom to trust but you should always be sure to trust yourself.”
  • “The moment your trust is broken, you would be scared to get attached to anyone ever again.”
  • “Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.”
  • “Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.” —Lawrence Welk
  • “Life teaches you the best lessons. And for me it is to never ever trust anyone ever again.”
  • “Health, contentment and trust are your greatest possessions, and freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still.” —Buddha
  • “Be your own strength. Trust yourself and be proud of yourself. Trusting others is not an option at all.”
  • “You can’t trust a promise someone makes while they’re drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.” —Joe Moore
  • “They say relationship without trust is not a relationship. And that is true, only if you are average at best.
  • “You do not have to feel bad for breaking my trust. It was my wrong to trust you, not yours.”
  • “When you start to wonder whether you can trust someone or not, that is when you already know you don’t.”
  • “Trust is a fragile thing. Easy to break, easy to lose and one of the hardest things to ever get back.”
  • “Betrayal could happen even between family and friends, so it would be best not to trust someone, just be suspicious of everyone.”
  • “Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.” —Eminem
  • “Love and hate can coexist but just not for the same person at the same time. Same is the case with trust and distrust.
  • “Meeting people who only lie to take advantage is not always considered a misfortune. Treat this as a lesson where you learn who not to trust.”
  • “Never trust a person who says he’s happy for you when you succeed. Those who will be really happy won’t have to say it in words.
  • “If you want to help yourself, trust yourself. Not because people are not trustworthy it is because you are more trustworthy than any other person out there.
  • “There is nothing wrong with you if your trust was broken by the one you love. It is just that that person is not worthy of your trust.”
  • “Trust doesn’t come with a refill. Once it’s gone, you probably won’t get it back. And if you do it will never be the same. And that’s a fact.”
  • “I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.” —Rainbow Rowell
  • “When you trust someone, depend on them, you give them opportunity to hurt you. Well, I am not saying that every person you will ever meet is going to hurt you, but most of them are
  • “Trusting no one does not mean being alone. It means being strong. You can be around people, and be friends with them. Just do not reveal too much, it will only come back in the form of hurt.
  • “Trust is a fragile thing once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom but once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we’re closest to can betray us.” —Mary Alice Young
  • “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” —Marilyn Monroe