Quotes About Trust

A fav'rite has no friend!

Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

Fear not, but trust in Providence Wherever thou may'st be.

It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the evidence. We must actively doubt; we have to scrutinize our views, not take them on trust. No virtue attached to blindly accepting orthodoxy, however 'venerable'...

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

When we act on our spontaneous judgment, we are almost always better off.

Have no expectations except to be fiercely tempted to your last breath.

However, you'll all find, if you haven't found it out already, that a time comes in every human friendship when you must go down into the depths of yourself, and lay bare what is there to your friend, and wait in fear for his answer.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

A manager is an assistant to his men.

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.