#Trust Quotes

“Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.”

“Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.”

“Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.”

“Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.”

“But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.”

“I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.”

“The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!”

“Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.”

“Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.”

“Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.”

“Let no such man be trusted.”

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

“The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.”

“For trust not him that hath once broken faith”

“Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his earA stranger to thy thoughts.”

“He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.”

“I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.”

“We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.”

“Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.”

“Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.”

“Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.”

“Our distrust is very expensive.”

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

“There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.”

“Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act.”

“The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.”

“For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,And hold-fast is the only dog.”

“Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.”

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”

“All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.”

“Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.”

“And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.”

“The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -"Let there be truth between us two forevermore."”

“Tis better using France than trusting France;Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas,Which He hath given for fence impregnable,And with their helps only defend ourselves;In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.”

“It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.”

“Frankness invites frankness.”

“There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

“Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.”

“I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.”

“Submit to love without thinking”

“You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.”

“How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump.”

“The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.”

“The worm is not to be trusted.”

“Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.”

“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”

“Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that”

“The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.”

“I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.”