Trust takes one second to lose and a lifetime to rebuild.
Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.
With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too.
Mary Ann Cross
When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.
The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.
I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.
Fulfilling your promises is the easiest way to get elected, and breaking your promises is the easiest way to get fired.
It is almost impossible to win back a reader's loyalty once it's gone.
My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.
Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore.
Without truth, trust is lost. The ACA could not have been passed were it not for the repeated assertions, which proved to be false, that Americans who liked their health plans and their doctors could keep them.
Credibility lasts about two cycles of bad material, and then you'll probably never get it back. If you let people down, that's really hard to come back from - harder than climbing from nothing to something, even.
When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.