B. C. Forbes Quotes

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Trust comes from transparency…

Only those you trust can betray you" ~ Nathan

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

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.

I'm trusting. I don't assume people lie to me.

The hardest thing to do is to trust people.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

It is important not to trust people too much.

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

You can't start anything and not trust nobody. You trust everybody until they do something wrong.

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

If there is no trust, there is nothing. Trust is all.

Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.

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.

Trust is even more important than love.

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.

When it comes to relationships, it's nice to have something that is your own and not everyone else's. That's not part of my job. I never stood up on a podium and said, 'Vote for me - I'm perfect. I'll be this for you and never do anything wrong.'

Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.

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.

I always have issues with trust.