Trust Quotes
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.Frank Crane
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
Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.Alan Watts
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
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
Every sale has five basic obstacles no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.Zig Zigla
It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.Graham Greene
The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.William Shakespeare
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
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
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.Pope John XXIII
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
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
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
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
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.Samuel Johnson
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.John Collins
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.Frank Herbert
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.Solon
The treacherous are ever distrustful.J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf on Saruman, The Two Towers
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.H. L. Mencken
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
The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.Henry David Thoreau
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.Aristotle
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. Lesson of trust.Numbers 21: 7, Holy Bible
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.Bertrand Russell V. Delong
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.John Adams, Journal, 1772
Trust one who has gone through it.Virgil, The Aeneid
