14 Building Trust Quotes That Make You Slow Down and Think

Buffett built a fortune on patience, so it tracks that he sees trust as a long deposit you can wipe out with one bad withdrawal.

There's no test that skips the risk. At some point you hand someone the keys and watch what they do.

Trust lives in the feeling you leave behind, not the words you used to make it.

Short and plain, which is the point. One grand gesture proves nothing; showing up the hundredth time does.

Love can be felt in a moment. Trust has to be earned across many of them, which is why it weighs more.

The little lies are the tell. People who fudge the small stuff rarely hold the line when it actually costs them something.

Trusting someone can change how they see themselves. Handed real responsibility, people often rise to meet it.

A clear-eyed reminder that suspicion has its own price. Refusing to trust anyone is its own kind of prison.

Reagan borrowed an old Russian proverb to make a point: faith and checking the facts aren't enemies. They can share a sentence.

Lighter than the rest, but Barrie isn't wrong. Belief is part of what holds anything together.

Strip away the warmth and the words, and what's left holding people together is whether your insides match your outsides.

Before anyone backs you, you have to back yourself. Emerson puts the foundation right where it belongs.

Not obviously about trust, but presence is how you earn it. People trust the person who actually shows up, fully.

You can't build trust on a shaky foundation, and honesty is the slab everything else gets poured onto.