Trust Quotes

Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.

R. D. Hitchcock

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Benjamin Franklin

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

Thomas Fulle

We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every sale has five basic obstacles no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Zig Zigla

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

Jewish Prove

We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.

Sandy Farquha

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

Henry Ward Beeche

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME.

Shirley MacLaine

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Foster C. McClellan

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Thomas Jefferson

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.

Arab Prove

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.

H. L. Mencken

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Schweitze

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.

Virgil

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

Horace, Odes

I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols - - - "Maxims and Arrows".

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik H. Erikson

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Pope John XXIII

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf on Saruman, The Two Towers

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 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

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert

A woman should never be trusted with money.

Jane Austen, The Watsons

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Henry David Thoreau

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

Unknown

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

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

Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavou

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.

Robert Browning