Trust is a cornerstone of any healthy relationship. Whether it’s the trust between friends, family, or romantic partners, trust is essential for keeping things strong. But what exactly is trust? And why is it so important?

These 57 quotes about trust will help you understand its true meaning and why it’s such an important part of our lives.

Quotes About Trust

1. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. – William Shakespeare

2. For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. – Bo Bennett

3. The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool. – Stephen King

4. Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks. – Isaac Watts

5. Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. – Golda Meir

6. To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. – George MacDonald

7. All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. – Charles Spurgeon

9. Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. – Eric Hoffer

10. Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. – Eubie Blake

11. Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish. – Barbara Smith

12. I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason. – Stanley Baldwin

13. The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become. – Gisele Bundchen

14. Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. – Joyce Brothers

15. Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. – Corrie Ten Boom

16. The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God’s plan seems like it doesn’t make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us. – Allyson Felix

17. Trust yourself, then you will know how to live. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18. A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. – Harold MacMillan

19. You can’t trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. – W. C. Fields

20. Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor. – Grantland Rice

21. Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

22. I always trust my gut reaction it’s always right. – Kiana Tom

23. When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble. – Angelina Jolie

24. I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow. – Cher

25. Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s. – Billy Wilder

26. A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. – Stephen Leacock

27. I repeat… that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. – Benjamin Disraeli

28. Don’t trust anyone over 30. – Pat Boone

29. Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. – Natalie Goldberg

30. The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him. – Henry L. Stimson

31. How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? – Mary Renault

32. Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. – Claudia Black

33. If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. – Rita Dove

34. Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. – Stephen Leacock

35. You can’t trust anybody with power. – Newt Gingrich

36. Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. – George MacDonald

37. Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. – Helen Rowland

38. Men trust their ears less than their eyes. – Herodotus

39. Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place. – Roy Acuff

40. It’s a delight to trust somebody so completely. – Jeff Goldblum

41. Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. – Robert Baden-Powell

42. Trust not too much to appearances. – Virgil

43. I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business. – Harvey S. Firestone

44. I have to trust what I do and then do it. – Ednita Nazario

45. Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. – Doris Lessing

46. Trust in God – she will provide. – Emmeline Pankhurst

47. Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do. – Benjamin Spock