Quotes About Trust

Credibility through action. First, he bought himself time to do his homework. Then by terminating the two engineers who weren't competent in their positions, he increased his credibility with Fred as a person who could take action.

Allegra Goodman

Kids can tell when teachers are trying," Collin said. "It's like how dogs smell fear.

Having made what you know to be the correct decision, NEVER EVER question that decision.

unravel the brainwashing and follow your instincts.

In the past, whenever my logic and my instincts were in conflict, I would back my logic. Today, I back my instincts every time. Why? Because I know that my instinctive brain is many times more intelligent than my conscious brain.

Son, this is a Washington, D.C. kind of lie. It's when the other person knows you're lying, and also knows you know he knows.

Democracy "Democracy is the most fragile thing on earth, for what does it rest upon? You and me, and the fact that we agree to maintain it. The moment either of us says we will not, that's the end of it. It doesn't rest on anything but us; it doesn't rest on armed force, the moment it does it isn't democracy. It isn't something to kick around or experiment with." —Allen Drury, Stanford University (age 19)

W]e have far too much faith in pills, far too little trust in resilience, time, and homeostasis.

Candor disarms paranoia.

He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put his arm around me and pulled me and put my head on his breast and gave me love actually.

Who'll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who'll look into my hooded eye Who'll lie down under my darkened thigh?

Following Jesus might take us into dark, lonely places where we can't see any light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, scary as it may be, resurrection is not about God coming in the nick of time to save the day but about God coming after the corpse is dead and buried. Sometimes God reaches in only when the darkness has gotten pitch black and then shows his resurrection power to bring good in the midst of evil and pain.

Faith is a great thing. The trick is keeping it. Dad

light.  "I'll ring Malcolm's mum's croft and have him

You need to have faith and trust, Moira. And a little bit of pixie dust?

You don't believe in miracles. Sure I do. I just haven't seen any lately.

Promises didn't mean much...Anything could happen when all was said and done.

In some ways, a relationship is like a savings account: during good times, you both pay in, and in the lean times there's enough to see you through. Right now, I'm heavily overdrawn.

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.

Sometimes people run… to see if you'll come after them