Quotes About Trust

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.

In short, somewhere inside you there is a Machiavelli. Yes, he is a ruthless manipulator; but no prince, especially a kind one, would stay in power long without at least one advisor with as remorseless a point of view as that of the enemies a prince will surely have. The trick is to listen well but keep Machiavelli in his place.

The bottom line is that in those first years you either learned to trust the other, and the outer world generally, or you didn't.

As the novelist Charles Williams wrote, "Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

Meanwhile, your body was learning not to respond as if threatened by each new experience. And in the absence of a response, the body did not experience distressing, long-term arousal. You found that your body was a friend to trust. At the same time, you were learning that you had a special body, a sensitive nervous system. But you could handle things by learning when to push yourself a little, when to take your time, when to back off entirely, when to rest and try later.

Part of maturing into wisdom is transferring more and more of your sense of security from the tangible to the intangible containers.

Some of the most important containers are the precious people in your life: spouse, parent, child, brother or sister, grandparent, close friend, spiritual guide, or therapist.

I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.

trust takes years to build seconds to break and forever to repair

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.

Fear clogs faith liberates.

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing—"carry a message to Garcia."

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. ( Get Out or Get in Line , 1928)

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

A friend is one who knows you and loves yu just the same.

Never explain?your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway