Quotes About Trust And Trustworthiness

#1. 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

#2. Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

Robert C. Solomon

#3. Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

Stephen Covey

#4. I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.

Mohsin Hamid

#5. Trustworthiness is a mark of a success-minded person. To be seen as trustworthy is a great compliment. When people trust you, they expect that you will honor their trust.

John Patrick Hickey

#6. The ones you love must be the ones you trust, dont give it at a cheap bargain

Priyansh Shah

#7. I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.

Steve Goodier

#8. Do not trust a teacher that is unwilling to learn.

T.F. Hodge

#9. Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

John Stott

#10. Stop thinking that nobody is "good enough".

Auliq Ice

#11. When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.

David Richo

#12. Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.

Tammara Webber

#13. Security is a strange thing, a myth that the brain allows in exchange for a brief moment of peace.

Alessandra Torre

#14. Trust in the music business is a hard thing to earn and keep.

Jonathan Burkett

#15. None should say : 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Idries Shah

#16. Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#17. Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

Judith Lewis Herman

#18. A strange fact of life is that usually people who are counted out somehow transform into the action figures doing the toughest of times that people can count on.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#19. Trust is developed under pressure and over time; just as with God by us."


~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#20. Every time you make a commitment to your own self-care, self-love and self-respect and then follow through, you build trust in yourself.

Miranda J. Barrett

#21. Question the trustworthiness of someone who insists to be trusted without earning it...

Assegid Habtewold

#22. It's not your knowledge, skill, status & good look that enable you to do great things. It's your trustworthiness. But, you've to EARN it...

Assegid Habtewold

#23. The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.

David Richo

#24. The problem in todays world is that people lack trust in goodness.

Amit Abraham

#25. Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one's nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake!

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#26. Trust is an ethereal quality. Like oxygen or light we notice it only by its absence.

David Amerland

#27. Without trust, no company can ever hope for excellence.

Frank Sonnenberg

#28. You cannot buy trust,you have to earn it.

Munia Khan

#29. Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one's own behavior, improving one's trustworthiness, and focusing attention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways of being.

Kenneth Cloke

#30. Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist.

Tiffany Madison

#31. We trust strangers not because they are always trustworthy but because we want to believe in a world where they are.

David Amerland

#32. The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself.

Stephen Covey