Quotes About Trust

Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.

The dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.

No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.

Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.

Every man is destined to win. Whether he wins or not is determined by whether or not he aligns himself with God's will.

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

John is a man of his word. And so am I.

I have always maintained that a man can be as good or bad depending upon his life-partner.

More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Always flat front. You've got to be deeply suspicious of a man who consciously goes with pleats. Why would you do that?

From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.

Man must not rely on pure reason; he must mix faith with it.

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.