The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Man is a being of a mixed nature; and, as there is no integrity without its flaws, so is there no man so knavish but that in some things he may be trusted.
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Let no such man be trusted.
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.