49 Quotes About Untrustworthy Friends

Meeting someone new everyday can change your life for the better. Making new human connections can be both motivating and enlightening. Here is a look at some great quotes about untrustworthy friends to encourage you to make good choices.

“A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity. ”

“As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.”

“Broken people lead to broken hearts. That’s why it’s so important to heal from one relationship before starting another.”

“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”

“Distrust of government isn’t baseless cynicism. It’s realism.”

“Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.”

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

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

“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.”

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

“I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.”

“I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.”

“I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.”

“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.”

“In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.”

“It breaks my heart to know I will never be able to trust you again. I’ve learned so many lies and each time it takes a piece of me that you will never get back again.”

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”

“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”

“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”

“Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.”

“Rebuilding trust when it’s been broken is not dependent only on the person who has broken it, or how many times they can prove they are honest. ”

“Sometimes trusting a friend is the hardest thing to do, even the closest friends can become enemies.”

“The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it.”

“The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.”

“The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.”

“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

“The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it’s very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.”

“The trust has broken down. It will take some time to change attitudes and attitudes are going to be needed to develop trust”

“There’s as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said – he’d rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.”

“To forgive someone who hurt you is easy but to trust them again is next to impossible.”

“Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.”

“Trust is like a paper. Once it’s crumpled, it can’t be perfect again.”

“Trust is like a vase. Once it is broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be the same again.”

“Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.”

“Trust, once you get it. It’s priceless. But once you lose it, you are useless.”

“Washington’s answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The ‘fiscal cliff’ process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation’s so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.”

“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.”

“We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.”

“We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color.”

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

“What do people gain from lying? Besides losing: your respect, your dignity, your reputation, and those who love you. I guess those few minutes of satisfaction, smiling behind your lies, are soon well worth a lifetime of a regretful guilty conscience.”

“When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.”

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

“When trust is broken, it does not need to be the end of a relationship. Much can be learned from staying in a relationship and learning from the conflict situation.”

“When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away. ”

“When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.”

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.”

Knowing how to identify and deal with fake friends will keep you from getting hurt.