166 Hard To Trust Quotes

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Famous Hard To Trust Quotes

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. — Isaac Watts

Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can be expected in return — Peter Lerangis

I trust no one, not even myself. — Joseph Stalin

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends. — Eminem

Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back. — R. M. Williams

People ask me why it is so hard to trust and I ask them why is it so hard to keep a promise. — Wiz Khalifa

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once. — William Shakespeare

He who does not trust enough will not be trusted. — Lao Tzu

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms. — Sophocles

Trust not to much to appearances. — Virgil

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

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

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better. - Benito Mussolini

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better. — Benito Mussolini

Trust me not at all, or all in all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Trust one who has tried. — Virgil

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. — Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams

Short Hard To Trust Quotes

  • Don't trust the way, and don't trust people or else you will be in trouble. — Thai Proverbs
  • Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again. — Walter Inglis Anderson
  • Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. — Agatha Christie
  • It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. — Soren Kierkegaard
  • You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance — Errol Flynn
  • The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. — Henry Lewis Stimson
  • Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't? — Lenore Skenazy
  • We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. — Ovid
  • Trust and honesty is an investment you put in people. — Rachel Scott

Hard To Trust Image Quotes

Hard to trust quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

So Hard To Trust Quotes

I love you just the way you are but you don't see you like I do. You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you. — Bo Burnham

I think maybe my greatest weakness is that I trust people too much. I'm too trusting. And when they let me down, if they let me down, I never forgive. I find it very, very hard to forgive people that deceived me. So I don't know if you would call that a weakness, but my wife said "let up." — Donald Trump

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it. — Bill Vaughan

Hard to trust quote To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark, that is faith.
To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark, that is faith.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time. — Maurice Sendak

I've had so much happen, it's hard to trust people. — Shannen Doherty

Hard to trust quote Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise
Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise

I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me. — Juliet Marillier

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family. — Lady Gaga

From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once. — Zhang Ziyi

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control. — Joyce Meyer

It's Hard To Trust Quotes

The main advantage of blockchain technology is supposed to be that it's more secure, but new technologies are generally hard for people to trust, and this paradox can't really be avoided. — Vitalik Buterin

It's hard in a monetary system to trust people. — Jacque Fresco

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

Hard to trust quote Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.
Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.

We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. but the deeper truth is that we don't entirely trust it, and therefore have a hard time fully opening to it or letting it all the way into us. This disconnects us from our own heart, exacerbating our sense of love's scarcity. — John Welwood

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it. — Nicole Richie

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. — Norman Douglas

Hard to trust quote Today I will go out with the flow of life and trust the process. I will not stress over things I can
Today I will go out with the flow of life and trust the process. I will not stress over things I can't control.

Definitely trust yourself. Work hard. Be honest with yourself. And life can be joyful. It is joyful. Just give it your all and it's all going to work out. — Katie Holmes

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe. — Tori Amos

I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off. — Robbie Williams

Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust. — Damon Lindelof

Find It Hard To Trust Quotes

It really helped to have someone whose taste I really trusted who I knew was really smart and a really good writer. Sometimes I find it hard to judge my own work so it was good to have someone who could look at it. It was like, "Oh, she likes it, then it's good." — Kumail Nanjiani

Coaches want so many things from a back. It's hard to find someone like Edgerrin James or Marshall Faulk, someone you can trust to block, catch and be physical. But I can do all those things. — Ricky Williams

It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary. — Sarah Polley

Hard to trust quote You must tell yourself "No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it".
You must tell yourself "No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it".

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare. — Cara Delevingne

I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight. — Arabella Weir

I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify. — David Hoffman

Hard to trust quote Trust yourself. You have survived a lot and you will survive whatever is coming.
Trust yourself. You have survived a lot and you will survive whatever is coming.

It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting if you take part actively in the analysis, find something yourself, and try to refute some of the author's conclusions. — Mark Dvoretsky

Lack Of Trust Quotes

So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Lack of trust is an enormous transaction cost, and I underestimated this when I first got into business. — Sam Bankman-Fried

Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self. — Lee Roberson

Hard to trust quote I don't trust words. I trust actions.
I don't trust words. I trust actions.

Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else's mind. When you're OK, you don't need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself. — Jada Pinkett Smith

I will garden on the double run, my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes, and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind and work until my heart is short, then go out slowly with a feeble grin, my fingers flexing but my eyes gone gray from cramps and the lack of oxygen. — Richard Hugo

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

Hard to trust quote Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust. ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person. — Warren Buffett

The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything. — Kim Basinger

Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it. — Adora Svitak

A lack of transparency that fuels the idea that she is either hiding something or simply not someone to be trusted. — Christopher Michael Cillizza

Not Trusting Quotes

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing - T. D. Jakes

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing — T. D. Jakes

The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels. — Kathryn Kuhlman

I'm not afraid to fail...I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more. — Mother Angelica

Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well. - Joan of Arc

Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well. — Joan of Arc

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God. — Charles Stanley

When you come in contact with the anointing of God, it not only affects your moment, it affects your tomorrow. — Creflo A. Dollar

Hard to trust quote Work hard in silence. Let your succes be the noise.
Work hard in silence. Let your succes be the noise.

God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness. — Hudson Taylor

To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him. — Al-Ghazali

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it. — Mooji

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times. — Rick Warren

Untrustworthy Quotes

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy. — Chogyam Trungpa

You won't ride on a crooked goat. — Russian Proverbs

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

Hard to trust quote Never lie to someone who trusts you and never trust someone who lies to you.
Never lie to someone who trusts you and never trust someone who lies to you.

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. — Henry L. Stimson

It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies. — Ranulph Fiennes

The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy. — James Altucher

An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines. — Toni Morrison

Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable. — John Masefield

Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable. — John Masefield

The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders; in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account. — Eugene H. Peterson

Trust And Distrust Quotes

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. — Michael Jackson

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. — Alfred Adler

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. - Anton Chekhov

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. — Anton Chekhov

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them. — Troy Kennedy Martin

Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself. — W. C. Fields

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. — Eric Sevareid

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life. — Georg Feuerstein

You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them. — Ernest Hemingway

Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one. — Stephen Covey

Trust Issues Quotes

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this. — Kevin Gates

It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family. — Virginia Satir

Raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies are the main reason I have trust issues. — Woody Paige

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics. — Patrick Lencioni

From education to employment, housing to trust in the police, politicians from all parties must understand the different issues affecting individual communities. — Rishi Sunak

I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and belive in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the future and then work to make sure that that vision becomes a reality. — Wilma Mankiller

If you give your trust to a person who does not deserve it, you actually give him the power to destroy you. — Khaled Saad

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed. — Paul David Tripp

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them. — Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

Learning To Trust Quotes

Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes. — Billy Graham

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may. — Jimmy Buffett

You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. — Rumi

From Mary we learn to surrender to God's Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God! — Pope John Paul II

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly. — Helen Keller

If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn. - John Calvin

If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn. — John Calvin

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. - Marilyn Monroe

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. — Marilyn Monroe

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain. — Robert K. Greenleaf

We're not alone--at least, we're alone only if we choose to be alone. We're alone only if we choose to go through life relying solely on our own strength rather than learning to draw upon the power of God. — Sheri L. Dew

Not Trustworthy Quotes

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man! — John Wesley

Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers. — Mark Twight

Here’s the key: I’m not going to tell you how to change. People don’t change. I want you to trust who you already are. — Tim Grover

Why did not you trust yourself the first time? — Tim Grover

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not? — LeBron James

If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results. — Confucius

Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard. — Confucius

Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy. — Laurie Cabot

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

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More Hard To Trust Quotes

So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there no limits. — Michael Phelps

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become. — Johnny Weir

When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence. — Bob Benson

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that. — Barbara Boxer

The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more! — Max Lucado

One of the things that I truly have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, but that I'd like to share with you is to trust your own instincts no matter what people might say about you, no matter what criticism or what negativity might come your way for just being who you are, and just being yourself, it's so important. Tonight is your night. — Christina Aguilera

One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are so accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. If we are silent, who will take control? God will take control, but we will never let him take control until we trust him. Silence is intimately related to trust. — Richard J. Foster

You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust they will do the right thing, and maybe the hard thing, and maybe not the popular thing, and if you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life. — Ann Romney

Trust is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing. — Drake

Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder. — Maria V. Snyder

Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm. — Sebastian Coe

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire. — Timothy Keller

God, I want to see You. God, I want to hear You. God, I want to know You. God, I want to follow hard after You. And even before I know what I will face today, I say yes to You. — Lysa TerKeurst

Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity. — Sissela Bok

I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person. — Lana Del Rey

Out of sheer stubbornness, I just would keep going - just hoping that at some point something would click. I certainly held onto the hope that it might. I had no guarantees, but I trusted that if I worked hard and put in the time, it would eventually reap a fruit. I just didn't know what that fruit was going to be or how big it was going to be. — R.A. Dickey

I'm working hard to have a good life. You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color. You can plant a flower and watch it grow. You can decide to trust people, the right people. You can decide to start over and let other people start over, too. — Joan Bauer

Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't. — Maya Angelou

I don't trust people who don't use profanity. — Mark Oliver Everett

It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least. — James Nachtwey

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good. — Peter McWilliams

Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping. — Corrie Ten Boom

If your life is cloudy and you're far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but eventually you'll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life. — Martha Beck

US is a very religious country. Separation of church and state is part of our credo, but that it is hard to understand since our money says "In God we trust" and every President says "God bless America". — Madeleine Albright

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections. — David Platt

We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering? — Elisabeth Elliot

Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant passion to which the others are subordinate. Discover this governing passion in every individual; and when you have found the master passion of a man, remember never to trust to him where that passion is concerned. — Lord Chesterfield

For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first. — Suzanne Collins

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