Quotes About Trust

Can we rely on the authority of the pope? Millions of Catholics do, of course. He is, in fact, infallible in matters of faith and morality. Can we really say that Catholics are wrong to believe that the pope knows whereof he speaks? We surely can.

For many years, I have been a vocal critic of religion, and I won't ride the same hobbyhorse here. I hope that I have been sufficiently energetic on this front that even my most skeptical readers will trust that my bullshit detector remains well calibrated as we advance over this new terrain.

Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

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Take Tamar, for instance. She disguises herself as a harlot and sleeps with her own father-in-law, just to prove what a hypocrite he is.

The point I'm trying to make is that we as a family have bent over backward not to take advantage of Wal-Mart, not to press our ownership position unfairly, and everybody in the company knows it. Alice

There is one more aspect to a true partnership that's worth mentioning: executives who hold themselves aloof from their associates, who won't listen to their associates when they have a problem, can never be true partners with them.

If I'm going to fly around all over the country telling these folks they're my partners, I sure owe it to them to at least hear them out when they're upset about something.

So finally I called him in one Saturday in June of 1976, thirty months after I had given up the chairman's job, and just said simply, "Well, Ron, I thought I was ready to step out, but I see that really I wasn't. I've been so involved that in a way it has put you under a real handicap." I told him I wanted to come back in as chairman and CEO, and have him assume another job—vice chairman and chief financial officer, I believe.

I learned this early on in the variety store business: you've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.

I'm the guy who does his job," Wahlberg responds. "You must be the other guy.

We need a voice from the outside because our own voices cannot be trusted.

I could always count on him letting me down.

Putting the potential for damage into someone else's hands is scary. I have to have control, even if it is the power to self-destruct.

There are so many people in this world that can be right for each other. If there weren't, then cheating would never be an issue. Everyone would find their one true love and life would be great—relationships would be a piece of cake. But that's not how it is in reality, and I realize this.

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

Be not too hasty, said Imlac, to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however absurd it may be thought to boast an honour by an act which shows that it was conferred without merit, yet most men seem rather inclined to confess the want of virtue than of importance.