To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
Eric Hoffer
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.
Robert C. Solomon
Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.
Robert C. Solomon
All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.
Robert C. Solomon
When we say that trust is an emotional skill, this implies that emotional competence is a necessary part of trust.
Robert C. Solomon
Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.
Robert C. Solomon
Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.
Robert C. Solomon
Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.
Robert C. Solomon
Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.
Robert C. Solomon
True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.
Robert C. Solomon
Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.
Robert C. Solomon
Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.
Robert C. Solomon
Peace comes with trust, which will grow from continuing efforts toward mutual understanding and trade, Romeo-and-Juliet-style marriages, conversations,negotiations, and individual commitments.
Robert C. Solomon