55 Trust-Building Quotes

In the realm of human connections, trust serves as the bedrock upon which all meaningful relationships are built. Whether it's in our personal lives, professional dealings, or community interactions, the presence of trust can significantly influence the quality and depth of our engagements. To inspire and enlighten, we've compiled a curated collection of the top 55 trust-building quotes. These words of wisdom from notable thinkers, leaders, and visionaries aim to capture the essence of trust and its profound impact on our lives. Dive in and let these quotes motivate you to nurture and strengthen the bonds of trust in your own journey.

1. “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

2. “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 its brain?” - J.K. Rowling

3. “Take risks! That is really what life is about. We must pursue our own happiness. Nobody has ever lived our lives; ther are no guidelines. Trust your instincts. Accept nothing but the best. But then also look for it carefully. Don't allow it to slip between your fingers. Sometimes, good things come to us in a such a quiet fashion. And nothing comes complete. It is what we make of whatever we encounter that determines the outcome. What we choose to see, what we choose to save. And what we choose to remember. Never forget that all the love in your life is there, inside you, always.” - Linda Olsson

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

5. “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

6. “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

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

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

9. “Don't sign your namebetween worlds,surmountthe manifold of meanings,trust the tearstain,learn to live.” - Paul Celan

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

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

12. “Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true.” - Robin McKinley

13. “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

14. “Love is not a thing you can pick up and throw into the gutter and pick up again as the fancy takes you. I am a person, very unfortunately for you, with a quite peculiar dread of thrusting myself or my affections on any one, of in any way outstaying my welcome. The man I would love would be the man I could trust to love me for ever. I do not trust you. I did outstay my welcome once. I did get thrown into the gutter, and came near drowning in that sordid place.” - Elizabeth von Arnim

15. “Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.” - Neil Gaiman

16. “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.” - Stieg Larsson

17. “You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty with utter lies.... !!!” - Abhijeet Sawant

18. “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

19. “You spoke to Nicodemus?' Vivian asked.[Francesca] 'We did.'V: 'And he trusts you?'F: 'As much as one might after a first impression involving hatchets.” - Blake Charlton

20. “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

21. “Humbly let go. Let go of trying to do, let go of trying to control, let go of my own way, let go of my own fears. Let God blow His wind, His trials, oxygen for joy's fire. Leave the hand open and be. Be at peace. Bend the knee and be small and let God give what God chooses to give because He only gives love and whisper a surprised thanks. This is the fuel for joy's flame. Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will. And I can empty. I can empty because counting His graces has awakened me to how He cherishes me, holds me, passionately values me. I can empty because I am full of His love. I can trust.” - Ann Voskamp

22. “If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.” - Megan Whalen Turner

23. “All we know is what we're told.” - Ashly Lorenzana

24. “Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised. We fear for your future, but never for your character. You take our love and our trust wherever you wander. Father.” - Gail Carson Levine

25. “Compañera usted sabe que puede contar conmigo no hasta dos o hasta diez sino contar conmigosi alguna vez advierte que la miro a los ojos y una veta de amor reconoce en los míos no alerte sus fusiles ni piense qué delirio a pesar de la veta o tal vez porque existe usted puede contar conmigosi otras veces me encuentra huraño sin motivo no piense qué flojera igual puede contar conmigopero hagamos un trato yo quisiera contar con usted es tan lindo saber que usted existe uno se siente vivo y cuando digo esto quiero decir contar aunque sea hasta dos aunque sea hasta cinco no ya para que acuda presurosa en mi auxilio sino para saber a ciencia cierta que usted sabe que puede contar conmigo” - Mario Benedetti

26. “Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.We should like to skip the intermediate stages.We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability— and that it may take a very long time.And so I think it is with you; your ideas mature gradually—let them grow, let them shape themselves, without undue haste.Don’t try to force them on, as though you could be today what time (that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will) will make of you tomorrow.Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be.Give Our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you,and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.” - Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

27. “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

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

29. “I considered him and felt the now familiar crush of emotions weighing on me, begging me to cave in and fall into his strong arms.I pushed back with every ounce of energy I had left. Every time I trusted someone, I got hurt. Every time I let go, I was let down. Not again. I would drive them away before the left.” - Glenn Beck

30. “If you can't trust, you can't be trustworthy.” - Craig Ferguson

31. “Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian’s. Their needs came second. It came from the privilege of being trusted.But that doesn’t mean I love you less.” - Melina Marchetta

32. “We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.” - Ryan Winfield

33. “I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust him” - Katherine Boo

34. “The only way that we can protect each other is if we are together. If we face things together. If we trust each other.” - Cassandra Clare

35. “Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.” - Mary DeMuth

36. “The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

37. “Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.” - K. Howard Joslin

38. “To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.” - Pope Benedict-XVI

39. “The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.” - Minhal Mehdi

40. “Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.” - Myles Horton

41. “Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

42. “Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go on just the same. I am talking nonsense, but you know what I mean.""Yes, yes, I know. Life is like a train, Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so.""Why?""Because the train gets to its journey's end at last, and there is a proverb about that in your language, Mademoiselle.""'Journey's end in lovers meeting.'" Lenox laughed. "That is not going to be true for me.""Yes--yes, it is true. You are young, younger than you yourself know. Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it."The whistle of the engine came again."Trust the train, Mademoiselle," murmured Poirot again. "And trust Hercule Poirot. He knows.” - Agatha Christie

43. “It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.” - Anthony Liccione

44. “The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want.” - Hayley and Michael DiMarco

45. “The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.” - Idries Shah

46. “If the years have taught me one thing it's that those who care are always scarce. Those who genuinely care; not the acquaintances, false friends or those with similar aspirations. The few who seek your company, the souls who would plainly step off the world for you. Once you resolve to ignore them, only regret will follow.” - Darrell Drake

47. “Trust and believe, and you will achieve.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

48. “You saved my life.I trust you until you give me a reason to do otherwise” - Kristen Painter

49. “I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.” - Steve Goodier

50. “My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.” - Mark Henwick

51. “It's a shame, when I'm at the checkout line, and the cashier holds up my bill to the light, in search for a ghost president, or slashing a yellow marker to see if counterfeit. Even in money we can't be trusted. Makes we wonder whats next, will the government make a marker to slash our hand, or an x-ray we will have to walk through, to check if we have a dishonest heart or corrupt spirit?” - Anthony Liccione

52. “The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years.” - C.S. Lewis

53. “She waited for him with shallow breaths, head thrown back, eyes half closed, completely exposed in her trust of him, and it unravelled the last thread holding him together.” - Dianna Hardy

54. “Life is learning to take God's hand.....and hold on.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

55. “If you have firm trust in God, the success that comes to you will always be that which is most useful for you whether it appears good or bad in your private judgment.” - St. Francis de Sales