We’ve all had the trust we put in someone broken at some point or other. It’s one of the worst feelings imaginable, but don’t that let you stop trusting in people. Don’t let one bad apple spoil the barrel. Here’s our pick of the best broken trust quotes ever uttered. We hope you find some solace (and hope) in these wise words.
1. “Trust is like a vase, once it’s broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be the same again.” – Walter Anderson
2. “When trust is broken, there is not any medicine to recover that again, as it was before, even you try hard to gain back” – Ehsan Sehgal
3. “Instead of saying, “I’m damaged, I’m broken, I have trust issues” say “I’m healing, I’m rediscovering myself, I’m starting over.” – Horacio Jones
4. “That’s the thing about trust. It’s like broken glass. You can put it back together, but the cracks are always visible–like scars that never fully heal.” – Hope Collier
5. “Don’t trust people whose feelings change with time.. Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour
6. “Trust is hard to earn and it can be 10 times harder to earn back once broken.” – Kevin Allen
7. “Trust cannot be broken only taken back from people not worthy of it.” – Jackie Viramontez
8. “When a promise of leadership is neglected or unfulfilled, trust is broken, engagement erodes, and performance suffers.” – William A. Adams
9. “Trust in a relationship is very crucial. Without trust, a relationship cannot last as a healthy and happy bond.” – Alana Johnson
10. “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.” – Albert Einstein
11. “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
12. “You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible.” – Anton Chekhov
13. “Trust has to be earned and should come only after the passage of time.” – Arthur Ashe
14. “Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock
15. “In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.” – Brad Meltzer
16. “The glue that holds all relationships together—including the relationship between the leader and the led—is trust, and trust is based on integrity.” – Brian Tracy
17. “Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone’s hand and setting the very point to your heart.” – Cassandra Clare
18. “We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.” – David Levithan
19. “Never trust someone who lies to you. Never lie to someone who trusts you.” – Deanna Wadsworth
20. “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.” – Dhar Mann
21. “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
22. “Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.” – Eric Sevareid
23. “Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.” – Eric Sevareid
24. “Never break someone’s trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you.” – Robert Budi Hartono
25. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” – Ernest Hemingway
26. “After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person?” – Evelyn Waugh
27. “Trust everybody, but cut the cards.” – Finley Peter Dunne
28. “We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone. But paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.” – Frank Crane
29. “Trust is like blood pressure. It’s silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.” – Frank Sonnenberg
30. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
31. “To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” – George MacDonald
32. “They that trust in the Lord shall never be confounded!” – George Muller
33. “A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.” – Gregory David Roberts
34. “The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.” – Henry L. Stimson
35. “Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” – Isaac Watts
36. “A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else.” – Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
37. “Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.” – Jodi Picoult
38. “A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else.” – Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
39. “Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.” – Jodi Picoult
40. “You can’t trust a promise someone makes while they’re drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.” – Joe Moore
41. “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
42. “Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.” – Joseph Conrad
43. “Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.” – Julianne Moore
44. “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
45. “He who does not trust enough will not be trusted” – Lao Tzu
46. “I would not trust myself more than others with a good motive because we are all selfish.” – Lord Byron
47. “Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.” – Maria V. Snyder
48. “I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” – Maya Angelou
49. “I may have trust issues, but some people seem to have an issue with the responsibility of being trusted.” – Melchor Lim
50. “Betrayal annihilates trust. The more trust there is to begin with, and the more deception is involved, the more damage is done.” – Sandra Lee Dennis
51. “Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.” – Santosh Kalwar
52. “If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.” – Selena Gomez
53. “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
54. “For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.” – Suzanne Collins
55. “Only those you trust can betray you.” – Terry Goodkind
56. “We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.” – Thomas Moore
57. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
58. “Raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies are the main reason I have trust issues.” – Woody Paige