Quotes About Trust

handing his paycheck over to Susan to control, he began giving himself an allowance to spend how he

Being honest does not detract from the loss or the incredible value these people have: it simply prevents the pain, mistrust, and anger that follows when the truth comes out.

Great dangers stalk the globe—the four horsemen of the apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence, and death. There is no mystery about them. They are self-fulfilling prophecies. Joyous, transcendent creativity expresses itself in the positive vision that is the key to defeat the general that commands the four horsemen—despair itself. Trust, hope, and creativity can defeat the horsemen. We must not just call for them. We must develop them step-by-step.

all night he talks and holds me, all night he loves me slow and careful.

Confidences pre-announced are seldom worth while.

The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

Though my father and mother forsook me, the Lord would gather me in. -Psalm 27:10

I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.

In every marriage more than a week old there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

Consciously or unconsciously, you always get what you expect.

No matter how carefully we defend ourselves, all it takes is one footprint of another real person to recall us to the endlessly interesting hazards of living relationships.

Based upon the tournament results and the formal propositions, four simple suggestions are offered for individual choice: do not be envious of the other player's success; do not be the first to defect; reciprocate both cooperation and defection; and do not be too clever.

When the players will never meet again, the strategy of defection is the only stable strategy.

What accounts for TIT FOR TAT's robust success is its combination of being nice, retaliatory, forgiving, and clear. Its

What makes it possible for cooperation to emerge is the fact that the players might meet again

Lesson One was: "Be nice and forgiving." Lesson Two was more exploitative: "If others are going to be nice and forgiving, it pays to try to take advantage of them.

under suitable conditions, cooperation can indeed emerge in a world of egoists without central authority. To

them. In this way, civic trust is self-enforcing and self-perpetuating. As James Madison put it when advocating the Bill of Rights, the mere knowledge of its existence would "extinguish from the bosom of every member of the community any apprehensions, that there are those among his countrymen who wish to deprive them of the liberty for which they valiantly fought and honorably bled.

Once norms are broken without consequence, further breakage ensues.

As more windows shatter, other aspects of community life also start unraveling. The unspoken norm becomes: Do whatever you want here because everyone else is doing it.

people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.79

First, we seem to assume that if a lot of people are doing the same thing, they must know something we don't.

In general, when we are unsure of ourselves, when the situation is unclear or ambiguous, when uncertainty reigns, we are most likely to look to and accept the actions of others as correct.

those who cheat for you will cheat against you.