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Quotes About Trust

Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
~ Eudora Welty
What burdens we lay on the dying, Laurel thought, as she listened now to the accelerated rain on the roof: seeking to prove some little thing that we can keep to comfort us when they can no longer feel--something as incapable of being kept as of being proved: the lastingness of memory, vigilance against harm, self-reliance, good hope, trust in one another.
~ Eudora Welty
IubiÈ›i cititori...fiecare dintre voi are dreptate, numai ceilalÈ›i greÈ™esc. Totdeauna. Cu o condiÈ›ie: nici unul dintre voi s? nu-È™i închipuie c? e celalalt. Nu v? încredeÈ›i în afirmaÈ›iile altora. RepuneÈ›i totul în discuÈ›ie. FiÈ›i voi înÈ™iv?. Nu ascultaÈ›i nici un sfat: cu excepÈ›ia acestuia.
~ Eugene Ionesco
MRS. SMITH: Well, this is how it was. It is difficult for me to speak openly to you, but a fireman is also a confessor.
~ Eugene Ionesco
All doctors are quacks. And all patients too. Only the Royal Navy is honest in England.
~ Eugene Ionesco
being able to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension...without continually asking yourself: Shall I be able to manage it? Wait patiently, as see what comes - and how it comes!
~ Eugen Herrigel
You must learn to wait properly... By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind you so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension
~ Eugen Herrigel
You have described only too well, replied the Master, where the difficulty lies...The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You...brace yourself for failure. So long as that is so, you have no choice but to call forth something yourself that ought to happen independently of you, and so long as you call it forth your hand will not open in the right way--like the hand of a child.
~ Eugen Herrigel
You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he threw you. Believe me, I know from my own experience that the Master knows you and each of his pupils much better than we know ourselves. He reads in the souls of his pupils more than they care to admit.
~ Eugen Herrigel
How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and Master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone.
~ Eugen Herrigel
HOGAN-No, I wouldn't think it, but my motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself.
~ Eugene O'Neill
It makes it so much harder, living in this atmosphere of constant suspicion, knowing everyone is spying on me, and none of you believe in me, or trust me.
~ Eugene O'Neill
I'll be waiting to welcome you with that "my old pal" stuff, and give you the glad hand, and at the first good chance I get stab you in the back.
~ Eugene O'Neill
Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.
~ Eula Biss
People need to feel safe to be who they are—to speak up when they have an idea, or to speak out when they feel something isn't right.
~ Eunice Parisi-Carew
When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people.
~ Eunice Parisi-Carew
Train leaders in behaviors that promote trust and respect. Bust existing silos and focus on what's best for the project.
~ Eunice Parisi-Carew
Friends show their love in times of trouble.
~ Euripides
For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.
~ Euripides
He who believes needs no explanation.
~ Euripides
Flexibility and choice for workers create higher levels of trust, ownership of work, and productivity among knowledge workers than work arrangements defined by constant monitoring and set hours and locations.
~ Andrew Jones
The only thing holding people back from starting a relationship is failure to overcome hesitation.
~ Andrew King
If you believe, the evidence is all around you. If you don't believe, no evidence can be enough. All
~ Andrew Klavan
In the darkness, I had been afraid that he was evil. At dawn, I realized he had been my friend and guardian, watching over me all night long.
~ Andrew Klavan