Top 40 Quotes About Trust (2023 Update)

1. “Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn’t lie.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Intuition Quotes

2. “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

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes

3. “Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.”

— Benjamin Spock

Also featured in: Family Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

4. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes

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

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Betrayal Quotes

6. “Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.”

— Frank Ocean

7. “If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.”

— Will Smith

Also featured in: Struggle Quotes

8. “Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.”

— Ray Bradbury

9. “If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”

— Peace Pilgrim

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes

10. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

11. “The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes

12. “Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Honesty Quotes, Truth Quotes

13. “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

14. “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

Also featured in: Travel Quotes, Truth Quotes

15. “Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.”

— Jodi Picoult

16. “It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.”

— Graham Greene

17. “Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Inspiring Quotes

18. “Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”

— Khalil Gibran

19. “Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.”

— Agatha Christie

Also featured in: Quotes About Money

20. “Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Wise Quotes, Quotes About Ideas

21. “Self-trust is the first secret of success.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Confidence Quotes

22. “Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.”

— James Cash Penney

Also featured in: Responsibility Quotes

23. “The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.”

— Charles Bukowski

24. “Trust is the first step to love.”

— Munshi Premchand

Also featured in: Firsts Quotes

25. “Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.”

— Joyce Brothers

26. “Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”

— Alfred Adler

Also featured in: Commitment Quotes, Quotes About Work

27. “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.”

— Stephen King

28. “Trust that little voice in your head that says ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if...’; And then do it.”

— Duane Michals

Also featured in: Ignorance Quotes

29. “To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”

— George MacDonald

30. “Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Justice Quotes, Powerful Quotes

31. “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.”

— Thomas Sowell

32. “Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.”

— Pope Francis

33. “A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.”

— Charles Kingsley

34. “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

— Corrie ten Boom

Also featured in: Faith Quotes, Future Quotes

35. “All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Faith Quotes, Spiritual Quotes

36. “For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”

— Suzanne Collins

37. “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Also featured in: Truth Quotes

38. “A promise made is a debt unpaid.”

— Robert W. Service

Also featured in: Honesty Quotes, Betrayal Quotes, Truth Quotes

39. “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Betrayal Quotes

40. “The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Also featured in: Quotes About Hope

41. “It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”

— Samuel Johnson

42. “You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.”

— Jane Seymour

Also featured in: Helping Quotes

43. “It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

44. “Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.”

— Johnny Depp