Trust Quotes
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
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
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.Benjamin Franklin
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.D. Elton Trueblood
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.Theodore Roosevelt
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.Sandy Farquha
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.Pope John XXIII
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
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
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.Thomas Jefferson
Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near.Helen Rowland
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
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.Georges Clemenceau
For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task.Rainer Maria Rilke
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
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
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
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.Alfred North Whitehead
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.Thomas Fulle
Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.Jewish Prove
What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.Lyndon B. Johnson
Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.David Armistead
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
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
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.H. L. Mencken
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense.Patrick Henry
