170 Not Trusting Quotes

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Famous Not Trusting Quotes

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

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

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

Don't trust the way, and don't trust people or else you will be in trouble. — Thai Proverbs

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms. — Sophocles

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

Distrust unsolicited advice. — Aesop

It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others. - Alfred Adler

It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others. — Alfred Adler

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

Trust not to much to appearances. — Virgil

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

It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. — English Proverbs

Don't trust anyone over 30. — Pat Boone

People who don't trust you before the explanation will not trust you even after the explanation. Trust cannot be negotiated. — Mahatria Ra

Short Not Trusting Quotes

  • Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't? — Lenore Skenazy
  • Never trust a woman or an automatic weapon. — John Dillinger
  • You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent. — Dallas Willard
  • All is to be doubted. — Rene Descartes
  • Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. — Isaac Watts
  • Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight — Sister Souljah
  • Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. — Agatha Christie
  • You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. — Marilyn Monroe

Top 10 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

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

Not Trusting Image Quotes

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

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

Not trusting 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.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding - Bible Proverbs quote

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understandingBible Proverbs

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either. - Aiden Wilson Tozer quote

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Not trusting 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.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. - Ansel Adams quote

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams

Your situation does not embarrass God because He has solution. - T. B. Joshua quote

Your situation does not embarrass God because He has solution. — T. B. Joshua

Not trusting 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.

Not Trusting Anyone Quotes

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable. — Lynn Barber

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be. — Alice Hoffman

The goal of business should not be to do business with anyone who simply wants what you have. It should be to focus on the people who believe what you believe. When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges. — Simon Sinek

Not trusting quote I don't trust words. I trust actions.
I don't trust words. I trust actions.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. — Lemony Snicket

Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in. — Barbara Marciniak

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

Not trusting 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.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. — Daniel Handler

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

Trust is not an important element; it is THE important element in any LONG TERM success with anyone or any company. — Jeffrey Gitomer

Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard. — Pat Conroy

Not Trusting Someone Quotes

Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart. — Trent Shelton

To love someone is not first of all to do things for them,but to reveal to them their beauty and value, to say to them through our attitude: 'You are beautiful. You are important. I trust you. You can trust yourself.' — Jean Vanier

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. — E. E. cummings

Not trusting quote When trust is broken, sorry means nothing.
When trust is broken, sorry means nothing.

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

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust. — Billy Graham

Not trusting quote When your vision is clear have faith and trust yourself even when you don't know where your path is
When your vision is clear have faith and trust yourself even when you don't know where your path is taking you.

Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that. — Judy Blundell

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. — Walter Inglis Anderson

If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda. — Nick Offerman

I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money. — Diana Ross

Not Trusting Friends Quotes

He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man. — Samuel Adams

Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

By all means make friends with the dog, but do not lay aside the stick. — Moroccan Proverbs

Do not trust your friend, he/she will fill your skin with hay. — Turkish Proverbs

You do not really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks. — Icelandic Proverbs

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal. — Malcolm X

Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. — Marlene Dietrich

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light. — Chanakya

Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. — Eric Weiner

Not Trusting Everyone Quotes

I am getting you a coffee machine. Your husband is a horrible person. He lies when he says hello. He cannot keep up with all the lies he tells. Everyone knows he is not to be trusted. Wake up Coffee machine on its way. — Ari Emanuel

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust. — Shelley Long

I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too. — Anne Frank

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. — Rebecca West

Not everyone voted for me, but the fact that we have so far approximately 32 seats in the 50 seat parliament demonstrates the enthusiasm and the faith and the trust the Fijian people have had for both the track record of my government and FijiFirst manifesto. — Frank Bainimarama

I don't need to try to push everyone out of the way and say, "This is how you do it. I actually like not knowing. I trust every lead. — Dan Scanlon

Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others will find that not everyone is necessarily deceiving them, but they have already become deceivers themselves. — Zicheng Hong

If you're in a relationship and you try to trust somebody who's completely untrustworthy, when trust is the basis of any relationship and everyone else says not to trust, is love transformative. — Paul Haggis

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it. — John Oliver

Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust. — Sayings

Someone Not Trusting You Quotes

You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love. — Cassandra Clare

It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty. — Rick Riordan

Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The deeper your relationship with others, the more effective will be your leadership. People will not follow you if they do not trust you, and before someone will lend you a hand, you must first touch their heart. — Robin Sharma

If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible. — Osho

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone. — Toni Braxton

You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net. — Jennifer Beals

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt. — Sigourney Weaver

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you're working with; otherwise, you're not gonna come out with something that's really you. — Billie Eilish

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him. — Tom Brady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trusting People Quotes

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith

Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders. — Diane Nash

The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail. — Lou Holtz

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other. — Simon Sinek

I remain committed to my core family as one I can trust and depend on. The end result is the assurance that I'm surrounded by the people who will help me, stick by me, and fight alongside me, through good and bad, life and death. — Sonny Barger

In this day and age, you gotta be a profiler to really know who people are, which most of us are not. So, we need time and life to start happening for people to really show their trust colors. — Joe Budden

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business. — Max Weber

The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on the contrary, those myriads of public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. — Dalton Trumbo

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. — William E. Gladstone

The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting. — John Osteen

Trusting Again Quotes

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan

Ours began in a most unexciting way, as friends. Now, our love may be quiet and boring but it is sure. With the right amount of trust and love, and even an allowance for mistake. — Iza Calzado

Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again. — George R. R. Martin

Somebody screws me? Okay, I won’t do business with them again, but I won’t say, ‘How dare you!’ I’ll just say, ‘Okay, I don’t need to do business with them.' — Jared Kushner

You have to be willing to fail if you are going to trust yourself to act from the gut, and then adapt as you go. That’s the confidence that allows you to take risks and know that whatever happens, you will figure it out. Adapt, and adapt again. — Tim Grover

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

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again. — Walter Inglis Anderson

Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands. — Charles Studd

Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord. — Alan Redpath

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again. — Nicholas Sparks

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More Not Trusting Quotes

Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. If someone hurts you repeatedly, you are commanded by God to forgive them instantly, but you are not expected to trust them immediately, and you are not expected to continue allowing them to hurt you. — Rick Warren

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

It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army. — Wilhelm II

I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. — Rosa Parks

A man is not saved because he believes in Christ, he believes in Christ because he is saved. — Loraine Boettner

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. — Thomas Paine

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

I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what I see. I don't accept things at face value, you cannot trust what you hear or see. Don't jump to conclusions without thinking. — Mahathir Mohamad

Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. — Henri Nouwen

There's something to be said for useless days. You know, those days when you have nothing to do and all day to do it ... Trust me, a beach and a bottomless drink may not cure the world's problems but it can really get your head in the right place. Those are my favorite kind of days. — Kenny Chesney

I do honestly and sincerely believe in the necessity or desirability of Hindu-Muslim unity. I am also fully prepared to trust the Muslim leaders. But what about the injunctions of the Koran and Hadis? The leaders cannot over-ride them. Are we then doomed? I hope not. I hope your learned mind and wise head will find some way out of this difficulty. — Lala Lajpat Rai

Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with. — Michelle Obama

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting. — Joyce Meyer

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah! — Charles Spurgeon

Let the storm rage and the sky darken - not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her, the Virgin Most Powerful "who with virginal foot did crush the head of the serpent. — Pope Pius X

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

To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God. — William Tyndale

Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience - this was the glue that held us together. — Joseph Bonanno

True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers. — Sayings

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated — Brad Stevens

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan. — Charles Stanley

The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown. — James Stewart

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