Trust Quotes

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavou

Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.

Jewish Prove

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

Homer, The Iliad

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self - Distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.

Thomas Fulle

How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

Sterne

Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.

John Fellows Akers

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

William Fullbright

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Albert Einstein

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

Men have no right to put the well - Being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

Edmund Burke

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

Horace, Odes

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

Rita Mae Brown

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth.

Stanley Baldwin

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Alvin Toffle

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789

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

Democritus

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Charles Kingsley

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Booker T. Washington

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

Plutarch

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

Henry L. Stimson

Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

Horace

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Jeseph Joubert

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.

Horace

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Author Unknown

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton