Trust, that intangible yet foundational pillar of every relationship, is something we often muse upon.
Trust isn’t merely a word; it’s the very essence of a solid relationship. Imagine embarking on a conversation, and laying its foundation with some poignant quotes about trust. Be it the camaraderie at work or the warmth of a romantic liaison, we yearn for sincerity, fidelity, and trustworthiness in those we’re close to. A mere whisper of doubt can cloud our minds, rendering even the most profound connections somewhat hollow.
You see, uncertainty can be the quicksand in the world of relationships. Especially in romantic dalliances, where it’s vital for both parties to bare their souls and feel secure in doing so. When trust wavers, insecurities can become looming shadows. Bonds of friendship, the sacred vows of marriage, or the tender ties of family – they all thrive on trust. It’s a theme that’s transcended time, being fervently discussed across generations. So, to celebrate its importance, we’ve curated a selection of 121 quotes that delve deep into the heart of trust in relationships. Ready to dive in? Scroll onwards.
Quotes On Trust In Long-Distance Relationships
- “Long-distance relationships are hard, but they’re also incredible. If you can love, respect, trust, and support each other from a distance, then you will be unstoppable once you are physically together.”– Anonymous
- “With love and understanding, trust in life can be regained, but it takes two to get through this, and you need to be devoted to each other and sufficiently motivated to show each other that there is no need for jealousy within the relationship.”– Sofia Price
- “People become trustworthy when the record shows that they are consistent in acting justly, being truthful, and showing loyal love.”– David Richo
- “Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.”– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.”– Jodi Picoult
- “Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn’t have to.”– Don Miguel Ruiz
- “Distance never separates two people truly in love.”– Anonymous
- “I trust you is a better compliment than I love you because you may not always trust the person you love, but you can always love the person you trust.”– Anonymous
- “Without respect, love is lost. Without caring, love is boring. Without honesty, love is unhappy. Without trust, love is unstable.”– Anonymous
- “Relationships are about trust. If you have to play detective, then it’s time to move on.”– Anonymous
- “The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.”– Abraham Lincoln
- “When mistrust comes in, loves goes out.”– Irish proverb
- “Indifference is expensive. Hostility is unaffordable. Trust is priceless. It’s all about relationships.”– Ted Rubin
- “A good relationship doesn’t need promise, terms, and conditions. It just needs a she who can trust and a he who can be loyal.”– Anonymous
- “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.”– Anonymous
- “He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.”– Lao Tzu
- “A relationship without trust is like a car without gas. You can stay in it all you want, but it won’t go anywhere.”– Michael J Herbert
- “Trust is like a paper; once it’s crumpled, it can’t be perfect again.”– Auliq Ice
- “Never lie to someone who trusts you and never trust someone that lies to you.”– Deanna Wadsworth
- “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”– Ernest Hemingway
- “Cheating on a good person is like throwing away a diamond and picking up a rock.”– Anonymous
- “Distance doesn’t ruin a relationship. Doubts do.”– Anonymous
- “Broken trust is like melted chocolate. No matter how hard you try to freeze it, you can never return it to its original shape.”– Anonymous
- “The best proof of love is trust.”– Joyce Brothers
- “Relationships are like birds. If you hold tightly, they die. If you hold loosely, they fly. But if you hold with care, they remain with you forever.”– Anonymous
- “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
- “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”– J.M. Barrie
- “We do not need a minute-by-minute breakdown of where our beloved has been or what she or he has done because we trust them.”– Andrew G. Marshall
- “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”– Maya Angelou
- “The more trust that exists in a relationship, the more you look out for each other. You have your beloved’s back, and vice versa.”– John Gottman
- “It’s a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that’s very difficult, really difficult and very brave.”– Nicole Kidman
- “For me, love is magic; it’s about trust and understanding. It’s putting the other person before you effortlessly.”– Aditi Rao Hydari
- “You believe lies, so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “Often, it’s even harder to trust people than it is to love them. That said: it’s just as hard for people to trust you.” – Robin Dreeke and Cameron Stauth
- “I trust you: That’s huge. That’s the truth. That’s real love. Everyone uses ‘I love you’ so loosely.”– Justin Chatwin
- “In finding love, I think it’s important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it’s important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.”– Kina Grannis
A romantic relationship requires a deep level of emotional intimacy which cannot be achieved without trust in each other. A relationship with firm trust can stand the test of time, distance, misunderstandings, and anything else that comes in its way. So, don’t just believe us. Instead, read the following quotes by eminent personalities, singing praises of a bond based on trust.
Quotes On Trust In Romantic Relationships
- “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.”– John C. Maxwell
- “You are and always have been worthy of love, care, trust and respect.” – Natalie Lue
- “To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”– George MacDonald
- “Love, care, responsibility, and trust are all still the founding constitution behind the family.”– Tye Gnass, James Shendal, and Steven David
- “Trust is the first step to love.”– Munshi Premchand
- “I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.”– Steve Maraboli
- “Having trust makes love come alive. Trust isn’t just the basis for a relationship; it’s the lifeblood that keeps a relationship healthy.”– Mira Kirshenbaum
- “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”– William Shakespeare
- “I had to trust life since I was young enough to believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. ”– Maya Angelou
- “A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust, and respect, and if you don’t have those, you don’t have love.”– Neil Strauss
Enduring a relationship post a betrayal of trust is akin to walking on thin ice. Not only is it challenging, but on occasions, it might feel utterly futile. The specter of another betrayal often lurks in the background, making it an uphill battle to find solace, let alone joy, in the relationship.
A fractured trust can cast long shadows, turning even the simplest gestures into potential triggers of doubt. Dive into the next section as we shed light on the profound ache that stems from broken trust.
Quotes On Broken Trust In Relationships
- “You know, sometimes you have got to trust the people you love. You have got to trust that if they are good people, they will make good decisions.”– Janette Rallison
- “What’s burned is burned, but what’s broken can heal. And broken trust in a relationship is not like a house on fire.”– Mira Kirshenbaum
- “Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind because if you can’t trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?”– Alexandra Bracken
- “Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.”– Lawrence Welk
- “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
- “Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.”– William Paul Young
- “I understand how difficult it is, putting your heart in someone else’s hands. But, if you don’t, how will you ever truly know a person?”– Renee Ahdieh
- “I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other are timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry.”– John Legend
- “It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”– Samuel Johnson
- “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
- “I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken pieces as long as I lived.”– Margaret Mitchell
- “We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.”– Walter Anderson
- “Don’t trust the person who has broken faith once.”– William Shakespeare
- “If you found that one person who is really worth the sacrifices, pain, and hardships, then your efforts will not go to waste.”– Anna Agoncillo
- “Broken trust forces us, first, to acknowledge a painful reality we may have chosen to ignore, then, to make some difficult decisions.”– Dr. Jane Greer
- “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”– Albert Einstein
- “In true love, the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.”– Hans Nouwens
- “What do people gain from lying? Besides losing: your respect, your dignity, your reputation, and those who love you. I guess those few minutes of satisfaction, smiling behind your lies, are soon well worth a lifetime of a regretful guilty conscience.”– Amir Riveroll
- “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”– William Blake
- “It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”– David Levithan
- “For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”– Suzanne Collins
- “Sometimes, the people that love you the most turn out to be the people you will trust the least.”– Shannon L. Alder
- “Sometimes trusting a friend is the hardest thing to do; even the closest friends can become enemies.”– James Merrow
- “When someone breaks your trust, don’t feel stupid for trusting them. You didn’t do anything wrong. They’re just an untrustworthy person.”– Sonya Parker
- The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it’s very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.”– Thomas J. Watson
- “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
- “Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.”– Shelley Long
- “None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still, we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”– Paulo Coelho
- “It breaks my heart to know I will never be able to trust you again. I’ve learned so many lies, and each time it takes a piece of me that you will never get back again.”– Karen Kostyla
- “The things we don’t stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go.”– Mandy Hale
- “Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing — you are a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.”– Nicholas Sparks
- “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
- “Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.”– Johann Kaspar Lavater
- “Just because you fall once doesn’t mean you’re fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don’t, then who will.”– Marilyn Monroe
- “Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.”– Julianne Moore
- “Broken trust and anger will close a heart until honesty and love is once again found.”– Anonymous
- “It’s easy to forgive the mistakes of others. But it’s hard to rebuild that trust that has been destroyed.”– Anonymous
- “We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”– Alison Croggon
- “Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult. Much of the skepticism of our world can be traced back to broken trust.”– Dillon Burroughs
- “It’s the same old story you’ve heard a thousand times. Somebody’s trust gets broken. Somebody’s left behind.”– Travis Tritt
- “Trust is like a vase… once it’s broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.”– Walter Inglis Anderson
- “Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.”– Harlan Coben
- “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.”– Stephen King
- “Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.”– Maria V. Snyder
- “Broken trust can heal more quickly than most of us have thought, too. And it’s worth it because whoever coined the expression ‘broken places are stronger where they heal’ is absolutely right when it comes to trust.”– Mira Kirshenbaum
- “When what you hear and what you see don’t match, trust your eyes.”– Dale Renton
- “Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.”– Rick Warren
- “People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.”– Shannon L. Alder
Trust, as many seasoned relationship gurus and authors will attest to, isn’t static. It ebbs and flows, just like the tides. There are moments, inevitable in any relationship, where we might falter, letting down those we hold dear. However, the true mettle of a relationship is tested not in the stumble, but in the subsequent rise.
Rebuilding trust isn’t a sprint; it’s a marathon. A journey of introspection, understanding, and most importantly, steadfast commitment. As time melds wounds and consistent effort bridges gaps, trust can indeed be rekindled. As you delve into the upcoming section, you’ll discover why, sometimes, offering a second chance to your relationship – and to your partner – can be the most empowering decision. Stay with us and dive deeper into the intricacies of trust.
Quotes On Rebuilding Trust In Relationships
- “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.”– Steve Jobs
- “I have blind trust in people. Even if that ends up hurting me, I won’t change. I will go on trusting people because that’s the only way I know to love someone.”– Bipasha Basu
- “Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”– Doris Lessing
- “Approach your partner with love and kindness to re-establish the trust that you had originally.”– Jessica Riley
- “When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.”– Brene Brown
- “Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!”– William Hazlitt
- “But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you have rescued me.”– Psalm 13:5 (NLT)
- “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”– Corie ten Boom
- “Trust, but verify.”– Ronald Reagan
- “Trust is built with consistency.” – Lincoln Chafee
To have a partner who stands unwaveringly by your side is nothing short of serendipity. This steadfast loyalty is the very backbone that fortifies a relationship, making it resilient against life’s myriad storms.
In a world where fleeting desires often overshadow profound commitments, the value of genuine loyalty is beyond measure. It’s like that rare gem, shining brighter amidst the ordinary, endowing a relationship with an aura of invincibility. As you venture into the next segment, you’ll uncover the depth of loyalty’s worth and why it is an element that should never, ever be traded or overlooked. Let’s delve into the magnificence of unwavering loyalty.
Quotes On Loyalty In Relationships
- “A person who is afraid to risk his heart is the true coward of this world. He is frightened of placing his loyalty in somebody else’s hands when it is the only way for him to find who’s that special one he can trust to protect it forevermore.”– Anonymous
- “It is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest, that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us, but they make us feel safe.”– H.L. Mencken
- “A happy marriage needs trust, commitment, honesty, perseverance, passion, and lots of hard work.”– Anonymous
- “When you are surrounded by the people you love, you can take immense comfort from them. Learn to talk to those you trust and just pour your heart out.”– Brandon Cutt
- “Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.”– Morihei Ueshiba
- “Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.”– Roy T. Bennett
- “Life is always built of relationships with people, and trust is vital to fill friendship, honesty, love, and passion in a relationship. Trust is considered the central pillar supporting a relationship, and is compared to the concrete foundation of a house.”– Kent Pinkerton
- “There are no other colors to loyalty, only black and white. It’s either you are faithful or not at all.”– Anonymous
- “Words spoken through loyalty, no matter how much the bitterness of it stings me, is the true essence of friendship and family.”– Anonymous
- “I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me, and the love and loyalty I give them form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”– Veronica Roth
- “Loyalty does not have a price tag. It is something you earn and work hard for.”– Anonymous
- “Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.”– Isaac Watts
- “We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”– Cornel West
- “Trust is involved in all the basic elements of a healthy relationship: namely, love (respect and consideration for another person), communication, commitment and honesty.”– Harold Duarte-Bernhardt
- “The ingredients for a steadfast friendship are a cup of love, a tablespoon of honesty, and a huge pack of loyalty.”– Anonymous
- “I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people; you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.”– Sylvester Stallone
- “Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.”– Woodrow Wilson
Trusting the Journey of Intimate Connections
Across the vast tapestry of human history and emotion, these 121 trust quotes crystallise the profound wisdom and raw sentiments we all grapple with in relationships. May they serve as gentle reminders, nudging you to embrace authenticity, vulnerability, and true understanding.
Trust isn’t merely a sentiment; it’s the living heartbeat of a relationship. To wholly invest in a bond is to offer trust and expect it in return. But beyond just expectations, it’s vital to embody the very qualities of reliability and trustworthiness we seek. It is only when we dare to bare our innermost selves, showcasing our vulnerabilities, that we touch the zenith of love and intimacy in a relationship. So, embark on this journey of trust, bestowing upon your partner the same loyalty and faith you wish to see mirrored.
FAQs on Trust in Relationships
How is trust cultivated in a relationship?
Trust is a beautiful tapestry woven from threads of mutual respect, understanding each other’s perspectives, passions, and boundaries. The foundation lies in transparent communication and, importantly, the grace with which we navigate conflicts.
Can a relationship truly thrive devoid of trust?
Regrettably, no. Relationships bereft of fundamental trust are turbulent seas of doubt, insecurity, and angst. Such unions, tainted by suspicion, often become too intricate and painful to endure.
What’s the blueprint to mend trust in a relationship?
While mending shattered trust is no small feat, it is not insurmountable. True commitment and unwavering effort are essential. However, remember that actions often resonate louder than words. Demonstrating change, rather than merely verbalising it, is the cornerstone of rebuilding trust.
