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Quotes About Trust

A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.
~ Horace Walpole
I didn't always have friends so I am careful to take care of them.
~ Unknown
Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.
~ Richard Attias
Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
~ Milan Kundera, Encounter
It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.
~ Nicole Richie
A best friend isn't just someone who's always there for you. It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself.
~ Unknown
Lord, No one but you and I understands what faithfulness is. Do not let me die until, for them, all danger is driven away.
~ Unknown
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
~ Gelett Burgess
Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.
~ Henry Clay Trumbull
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
~ Joseph Addison
I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.
~ Robert Breault
A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.
~ Paul Tournier
Our friendship is stronger than most people because we talk and breathe in the same room and we eat and sleep in the same place
~ Jaejoong
To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Between friends there is no need of justice.
~ Aristotle
Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
~ D. H. Lawrence
Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.
~ Cokie Roberts
There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.
~ Anne Stevenson
The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.
~ Mason Cooley