Quotes About Trust

learned a lesson I never had as a politician: that we cannot properly lead those with whom we have not shared

she had brought harm to him, in the believe that nothing mattered, that no moment had consequences beyond the moment itself. She had agreed to kill him without realizing that he would die".

Soul murder, the psychiatrists call it, the sexual violation of children. Unimaginably small boys. Boys whose heads do not reach to their father's waists. Girls who are no more than infants. Boys and girls whose lives are ineradicably violated. Whose trust and innocence are lost to them forever. (208)

But I told my grandmother, and she listened, and then she said, "Don't ever tell this story to anybody else. If you tell this story to anybody else, something terrible will happen. Something terrible will happen to our family." And then she had a lot to do. (174)

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same reason they are made in the first place.

The strong are free to trust, the weak constrained to.

Lord, give me the guidance to know when to hold on and when to let go and the grace to make the right decision with dignity

The psychological fact of suggestion is that if statements are made again and again in a confident manner, without argument or proof, then their hearers will tend to believe them quite independently of their soundness and of the presence or absence of evidence for their truth.

When the customer comes first, the customer will last

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

People say that God works in mysterious ways when they really mean that life, or something in their own lives, doesn't make any sense, but I think that's wrong. I think it means that we can't make any sense out of life until we give up our deepest hopes, until we stop trying to arrange everything to suit us. But once we do, or are forced to . . . That's what's mysterious.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

The effective delegator Does not feel insecure Has confidence in subordinates Uses schedules when planning Knows the value of delegating Ensures staff are trained

Prayer is not trying to convince God to do something for us. Prayer is agreeing and working with God to shift

Until I get the keys to the Kingdom, Lord, I ain't giving up.

his head for him. "I'll give you the one because we

Promises aren't received by asking the Lord for them, trusting him to give them to us, or confessing them. They are the life that emanates from obeying his commandments—Wisdom.

Be simple and quiet. Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is easy, so easy.

A broken heart and God's will done would be better than that God's will should be avoided and her own satisfied.

There is only one thing to be done," went on the old lady, "be simple and quiet. Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is easy, so easy.