Quotes About Trust

There is a lot of people who got Confidence, but they are careful who they have it in. We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can be killed only once, but in politics many times.

If you ask, "What is the use of praying?" I answer, "Woe is me if I do not pray!" I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent somewhere. I pray because it is easier to pray than not to pray. It is the soul that prays first: the tongue wags afterwards. It is no small privilege that we have of talking with God, and of laying our troubles upon him so as to feel relieved of them.

You don't always have to pray for something, or to someone — you can just, simply, pray.

God always answers our prayers, but sometimes the answer is no.

Prayer is a triumph, in whatever form.

Parental Predictions. — Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11:30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

The woman about to become a mother, or with her new-born infant upon her bosom, should be the object of trembling care and sympathy wherever she bears her tender burden, or stretches her aching limbs... God forbid that any member of the profession to which she trusts her life, doubly precious at that eventful period, should hazard it negligently, unadvisedly, or selfishly!

Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.

Oaths are but words, and words but wind...

All promise outruns the performance.

He loses his thanks who promises and delays.

Eggs and oaths are easily broken.

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.

I beg your pardon, my lord; promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

A promise is a comfort for a fool.

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

Promise little and do much.

It's better by far to deliver more than you promise than to promise more than you can deliver.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies.

In executing the duties of my present important station I can promise nothing but purity of intentions — and in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence; if these, under the guidance of a superintending Providence, shall continue to me the approbation and affection of my fellow-citizens of the Union, it will be the highest gratification and the most ample reward that my mind can form any conception of in this life.

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