Quotes About Trust

O Christie! never think it's time to die till you are called; for the Lord leaves us till we have done our work, and never sends more sin and sorrow than we can bear and be the better for, if we hold fast by Him.

It won't do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on you, so mind what you do, or I'll come and bring you home.

What excessive promises, giving yourself away to get the other. What a thing, what a gift, always given before it is known the cost or the reward.

I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive.

When a baby falls asleep in your arms you are absolved. The purest creature alive has chosen you. There's nothing else.

After a while, I asked who was in charge. Phil said God. I said that was the most terrifying thing I'd ever heard and he said, Yeah, me too. That's why I bought the Bushmaster.

Higher Power makes promises we all know they can't back up, but anybody ever go and slap an old malpractice suit on God? Or the U.S. government? No they don't. Faith might be stupid, but it gets us through.

Funny how often the Will of God puts a dollar in a pocket, said Dr. Ames.

John's judgment' on any question was to her always right and the last word.

I loaned him the first money he invested in it and I helped him all along.

The Morgans were never litigious.

Because she confided in him and gave him adult responsibilities, he matured rapidly and acquired unusual confidence;

reassure worried investors

Rockefeller reiterated his faith that cooperation, not competition, advanced the general welfare.

In 1886, Standard Oil set up the Natural Gas Trust, with Rockefeller as its largest shareholder.

This transaction required Bill's signature, but John's relations with his father were so uneasy that he had to ask brother Frank and Pierson Briggs to act as intermediaries.

Not surprisingly, he had trouble delegating authority and low regard for the intelligence of other people.

Rockefeller even hesitated to punish serious offenses and instead of prosecuting the occasional embezzler simply dismissed him.

Pierpont wanted to follow him, but he held back, awaiting word of Junius's plans.

If she suspected wrongdoing, she kept it to herself to spare the children.

In later years, when an acquaintance inquired what had pained him most in the course of his eventful life, Grant responded readily, To be deceived by a friend. p809

he is coming into the office to see if he is fit to go into the firm later on, which I hope and trust he will be.

businessmen respected them for their honest dealings.

With such men at the helm, the GEB, for all its good works, would fall considerably short of heaven.