Trust Quotes

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak.

Toni Morrison, American writer (1931 -)

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

William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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 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

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

Henry Ward Beeche

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

Democritus

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

Albert Schweitze

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29

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

Martha Graham

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

Thomas Fulle

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Marva Collins

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

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Rita Mae Brown

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Horace

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

Thomas Fulle

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Henry Stimson

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

Conte Di Camillo Benso Cavou

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

Stanley Baldwin

Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.

Alan Watts

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Barbra Streisand

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

Zig Zigla

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 F. Kennedy

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

A man without trust is a man without life.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

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

Horace

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fea

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

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

Shakespeare

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07 - 08 - 04

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

John Collins

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #8455