Quotes About Trust

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, — He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Keep your friendships in repair.

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

Satu-satunya cara untuk mendapat sahabat ialah dengan menjadi sahabat.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.

We are born believing. A man bears belief, as a tree bears apples.

I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.