77 Powerful Quotes about Trust in a Relationship

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Ahhhh trust. It is a beautiful experience to be in a relationship with absolute trust.

We all know how very important trust in a relationship is; it’s one of those things that sometimes we don’t even realize how incredibly important it is until it’s been broken, unfortunately.

Whether you’re looking for quotes about learning to trust in a new relationship, quotes about the importance of trust in a relationship, or trust quotes for healing after trust has been broken, we’ve got some of the best quotes about trust in a relationship here for you, wherever you are on your trust journey.

Quotes about Trust in a New Relationship

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” –Ernest Hemingway

“When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self — the deepest fears, the hidden desires — a powerful intimacy is born.”              – Sarah Pekkanen

“Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.” –Roy T. Bennett

“Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.” – Julianne Moore

“Trust is one of the most important things in a relationship. It won’t work if you don’t trust each other.” — Unknown

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” –Maya Angelou

“Love needs trust the way flowers need sunshine.” – Unknown

“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.” – Jodi Picoult

“Trust is not an obsession, it’s an extension of love. When we truly love someone, we give them our heart to hold in their hands. And when that love is returned, that very trust is balm to our souls.” – Julie Lessman

“Love is supposed to be based on trust, and trust on love, it’s something rare and beautiful when people can confide in each other without fearing what the other person will think.” – E.A. Bucchianeri

“Relationships should be built on trust and truth.” – Sophie Kinsella

“The fundamental glue that keeps a relationship together is trust.” – Brian Tracy

“The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“The best proof of love is trust.” — Unknown

“Trust is only gained when one person risks and doesn’t get harmed. It grows as both people increasingly risk and don’t get harmed in the process.” – Glen Williams

“Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.” – Maria V. Snyder

“If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.” – Alison Croggon

“Trust is the first step to love.” – Munshi Premchand

“After all … what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.”          – Evelyn Waugh

“Love cannot live where there is no trust.” – Edith Hamilton

“What is love after all but trusting in the unknown.” – Marty Rubin

“Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” – Isaac Watts

“Love and trust are so powerful. They can literally change the fate of a person.” – Tasha Hoggatt

“Without communication, there is no relationship. Without respect, there is no love. Without trust, there is no reason to continue.” – Unknown

“The easiest way to gain someone’s trust is to deserve it.” – Ashley Lorenzana

“It’s a delight to trust somebody so completely.” – Jeff Goldblum

“Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.” – William P. Young

“Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” – Isaac Watts

“We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone — but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.” — Frank Crane

“Trust is built in very small moments.” – Brené  Brown

“In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.” – Brad Meltzer

“The best proof of love is trust.” – Dr Joyce Brothers

“A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.” – Beau Mirchoff

“If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.” –Selena Gomez

“Trust is built when someone is vulnerable and not taken advantage of.”    –  Bob Vanourek

“Trust is even more important than love.” – Jeffrey Gitomer

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” — George MacDonald

“Love is supposed to be based on trust, and trust on love, it’s something rare and beautiful when people can confide in each other without fearing what the other person will think.” — E.A. Bucchianeri

“Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, uncovering new and awesome abilities of which they were previously unaware.” – David Armistead

Broken Trust Quotes

“Trust is like a vase, once it’s broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be the same again.” –Walter Anderson

“Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.” — Dhar Mann

“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” –Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.” — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“’It was a mistake,’ you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.” — David Levithan

“Trust is important. But once trust is broken, “sorry” means   nothing.”       – Unknown

“When a relationship doesn’t have trust, it will always have problems.”         – Unknown

“Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Trust, like the lubricant in an engine, is noticed only when it is gone and the motor has seized up.” — David Hurst

“A couple in a relationship is holding the thread of trust from two opposite ends. The thread is easy to break but impossible to restore.” – Varun Pahwa

“Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone’s hand and setting the very point to your heart.” — Cassandra Clare

“Don’t trust the person who has broken faith once.” — William Shakespeare

“Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it’s broken, but you can still see the crack in that … reflection.” — Lady Gaga

“Sometimes the people you trust are the ones who will hurt you the most.” — Valenciya Lyons

“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”             – Suzanne Collins

“Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.” – Rick Warren

“Only those you trust can betray you.” – Terry Goodkind

“No important relationship survives if trust is totally lost.” – Paul Ekman

“When mistrust comes in, love goes out.” – Irish Proverb

Funny Trust Quotes

“Always trust your gut. It knows what your head hasn’t figured out yet.”     – Unknown

“A relationship without trust is like a cell phone with no service, all you can do is play games.” – Unknown

“Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.” – Dr Joyce Brothers

“A relationship without trust is like a car without gas. You can stay in it all you want, but it won’t go anywhere.” – Michael J Herbert

“The most expensive thing in the world is trust. It can take years to earn and just a matter of seconds to lose.” – Unknown

“A relationship without trust is like koolaid with no sugar!” – Unknown  

“Trust is like blood pressure. It’s silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.”  – Frank Sonnenberg 

“I got trust issues because people got lying issues.” -Unknown

Healing Quotes after Trust is Broken

“Instead of saying, ‘I’m damaged, I’m broken, I have trust issues’ say ‘I’m healing, I’m rediscovering myself, I’m starting over.’” — Horacio Jones

“Broken trust is hard to heal because we’re not even trying to heal it. We’re just trying to make ourselves feel safe.” – Mira Kirshenbaum

“Awareness is the first step in healing.” – Dean Ornish

“Broken trust forces us, first, to acknowledge a painful reality we may have chosen to ignore, then, to make some difficult decisions.” – Dr. Jane Greer

“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.” – Tori Amos

“What’s burned is burned, but what’s broken can heal. And broken trust in a relationship is not like a house on fire.” – Mira Kirshenbaum

“I believe everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they’re right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”           – Marilyn Monroe

“When someone breaks your trust don’t feel stupid for trusting them. You didn’t do anything wrong. They’re just an untrustworthy person.” – Sonya Parker

“When your trust is someone is broken, you will inevitably experience shock, denial, anger, and sadness, feelings that are, in many ways, akin to the mourning process following a death.” – Dr. Jane Greer

“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken pieces as long as I lived.” – Margaret Mitchell

“The healing of broken trust is a natural process. Trust itself is natural.”     – Mira Kirshenbaum

Whether you are in a new relationship and are just growing that trust and security that makes for a healthy partnership, or you are reeling from broken trust and looking for healing, we hope you find what you’re looking for here in this list of powerful quotes about trust in a relationship.

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Amy Hartle is the co-founder and owner of Two Drifters, where she blogs about romantic and couples travel, relationships, honeymoons, and more. With a Master’s in English and a BA in Musical Theatre, Amy loves to write quality content as well as to entertain, and she hopes to do a bit of both here on the blog! Amy is happily married to her husband Nathan, and when not working on their sites, Amy & Nathan can be found cuddling, reading, and enjoying delicious lattes.