Trust is like lubrication. It reduces friction and creates conditions much more conducive to performance.

Trust is a biological reaction to the belief that someone has our well-being at heart.

Trust is not the same as assuming everyone is on the same page as you & that they don't need to be pushed. Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

Trust isn't solely about keeping faith in others' promises; it's also about being dependable in the promises we've made to others.

Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements — win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability — can flourish.

Trust comes from being a part of a culture or organization with a common set of values and beliefs. Trust is maintained when the values and beliefs are actively managed.

Trust is a precious quality. An essential quality. Once lost it is not quick or easy to rebuild.

In the course of the years of formation, the students learn to understand what trust means: it is really faith, but it is a faith of abandonment, a faith of openness, of confidence through Mary by living with the Lord.

Long-term success depends upon trust.

Trust is an important lubricant of a social system. It is extremely efficient; it saves a lot of trouble to have a fair degree of reliance on other people's word. Unfortunately this is not a commodity which can be bought very easily. If you have to buy it, you already have some doubts about what you have bought.

Trust is like a china plate. If you break it once, with some care and attention you can put it back together again. But if you break it again, it splits into even more pieces and it takes far longer to piece together again. If you break it more and more times, eventually it shatters to the point where it’s impossible to restore. There are too many broken pieces, and too much dust.

Trust begins to emerge when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain. With

The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.

There is a close relationship between truth and trust.