William Arthur Ward Quotes

It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.

It is much easier to establish trust than it is to reestablish it once you have lost it.

If you can't trust family who can you trust?

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

It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too.

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

A man without trust is a man without life.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

If I couldn't trust her, I couldn't trust anyone.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

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

The hardest thing to do is to trust people.

You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter.

Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

I trust my wife more than I trust myself.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

I've never cheated on a woman.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.