Quotes About Trust

I could have made a casserole out of these things, but you always say you like to know what you're eating.

God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

He asks too much to whom God is not sufficient.

give a reason for people to believe in what you stand for.

A leader's job is to bring people together for a common purpose, so credibility is critical. That will only come when people trust their leader and want to follow his or her lead. Communication opens the door to understanding what the leader is and what he or she stands for.

Communication opens the door to authenticity. A leader's presence affirms that what the leader says is an indication of what he or she believes. And when we sense that the leader means well, we will lend the leader our ears and will be inclined to follow his or her leadership.

A leader who delivers the truth and does so calmly and confidently gives people a reason to believe that the right people are in charge and will do what they can to improve the situation.

A vulnerable leader facilitates the bonds of trust by making herself approachable, likeable, and respectable.

When a leader demonstrates vulnerability, she enables three things to occur: approachability, likeability, and respectability.

So we fell asleep holding hands. If married couples got to do this all the time, shit if I could understand how there were ever divorces, or even fights.

they only trusted the wisdom of people brighter and more worldly than themselves when it was expressed in the vocabulary and style of rural idiots. In his guise as Brazenydol, he had once had a contract with DARPA to teach a team of physicists the basic terminology of tractor pulls so that they could give an acceptable explanation of omniwavelength stealth to a Congressional committee that didn't understand tractor pulls, either.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

God had already made me realise that His mercy does not grow weary of waiting for some souls and that He enlightens them only slowly. So I took good care not to anticipate Him.

Quia tu es Deus fortitudo mea; quare me repulisti, et quare tristis incedo, dum affligit me inimicus?

When you are hiding something, you get the feeling that every other secret is connected to your secret. Lewis couldn't challenge anyone for fear of being exposed himself.

Two daiquiriswithdrew into a corner of the gorgeous roomand one told the other a lie.

If we don't risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.

Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.

We construct walls when we are hurt to safeguard our hearts and prevent any future wounds. We become selective, denying entry to all we fear will hurt us. We filter out anyone we think owes us something. We withhold access until these people have paid their debts in full. We open our lives only to those we believe are on our side.

This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them—after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.