Quotes About Trust

It is better to be the thorn in the side of your friend than his echo

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?

Follow the quiet voice within you that is telling you where to go.

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

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

It makes no difference whether the appeal is to numbers or to one. The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

É impossível para um homem ser enganado por outra pessoa, a não ser por si mesmo". Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Samuel Johnson The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God; he is nourished by unfailing fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power. Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man?

whatever instances can be quoted of unpunished theft, or of a lie which somebody credited, justice must prevail, and it is the privilege of truth to make itself believed.

Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end, it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fiber of the human heart.

That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these [158] have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces we are disconcerted.

The wise man in the storm prays to God not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him, not the storm without.

Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, vor dem man laut denken kann.

The only way to have a friend is to be one

How you meet your own commitments is important. Are you doing it by draining energy—driving people relentlessly, or burning them out by making impossible demands? Or are you expanding the capacity of the organization by helping people grow and expand their own capacities? In other words, there's a right and a wrong way to delegate.

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

When your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.

The world is won by those who let it go.