Trust plays a key role in shaping your relationships, decisions, and sense of security. Whether you’re building new connections or mending old ones, understanding trust can help you approach life with clarity and confidence. These 50 trust quotes offer practical wisdom to help you reflect on trust and its impact on your everyday choices.
- “Trust is built when someone is vulnerable and not taken advantage of.” – Bob Vanourek
- “To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” – George MacDonald
- “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.” – Unknown
- “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “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 Covey
- “Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.” – John Harold
- “Trust is like a vase; once it’s broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be the same again.” – Walter Anderson
- “It takes two to tango, but it takes trust to build a lasting relationship.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.” – Santosh Kalwar
- “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” – Albert Einstein
- “Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.” – William Paul Young
- “Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” – Isaac Watts
- “Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.” – Stephen Covey
- “Trust is the foundation of any relationship, without it, nothing can thrive.” – Unknown
- “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
- “Trust is a fragile thing. Easy to break, easy to lose, and one of the hardest things to ever get back.” – Unknown
- “Trust, but verify.” – Ronald Reagan
- “Trust is like blood pressure. It’s silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.” – Frank Sonnenberg
- “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Charles Spurgeon
- “Trust is a commitment of the soul, grounded in truth and integrity.” – Unknown
- “To earn trust, one must be vulnerable. It’s the only way to truly connect with another human being.” – Brené Brown
- “Trust is the foundation of love, without it, love cannot exist.” – Unknown
- “Trust is built with consistency.” – Lincoln Chafee
- “Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.” – Alfred Adler
- “Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “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
- “Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.” – Christopher Hitchens
- “Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.” – Warren Bennis
- “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.” – Frank Crane
- “Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.” – R. M. Williams
- “When trust is broken, sorry means nothing.” – Unknown
- “Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” – Khalil Gibran
- “The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Trust is built when no one is looking.” – Seth Godin
- “Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust.” – Albert Einstein
- “Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.” – David Armistead
- “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock
- “A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.” – Harold MacMillan
- “Trust leads to approachability and open dialogue.” – Scott Weiss
- “Trust is the ability to risk, based on your belief in another’s honesty, integrity, and dependability.” – Unknown
- “Trust is the glue that binds people together.” – Unknown
- “Trust begins with oneself.” – Unknown
- “It is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest, that holds human associations together.” – H.L. Mencken
- “Trust is the bridge between the unknown and the known.” – Unknown
- “Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.” – Robert C. Solomon
- “Trust is not a matter of technique, tricks, or tools but of character.” – Stephen Covey
- “When mistrust comes in, love goes out.” – Irish Proverb
