- “You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”
– Anton Chekhov (1860—1904)
- “It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
– Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
- “If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”
– Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865)
- “Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
– Booker T. Washington (1856—1915)
- “To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
– George MacDonald (1824—1905)
- “Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.”
– Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741—1801)
- “Our distrust is very expensive.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
- “A man who doesn’t trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.”
– Cardinal de Retz, (1613—1679)
- “The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.”
– Henry L. Stimson (1867 – 1950)
- “For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.”
– Aeschylus (525 BC – 456 BC)
- “Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.”
– Democritus (460 BC – 370 BC)
