Quotes About Trust

God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him.

For many years I was unwilling to share my personal experiences.

No one deserves any more respect than the other person until they prove themselves unworthy.

By nature, I tended to trust people and was typically open and transparent... But such transparency would go astray when others saw us out of context or when I gave trust to those few who were unworthy of it.

A Congress afraid of its own citizens is unworthy to lead the free world.

Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance isn't as hard as you might think.

Unfortunately, injuries are part of the game and you have to adapt, keep faith, trust and never give up.

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

Betrayal can be extremely painful, but it's up to you how much that pain damages you permanently.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

It's tough to have a guy - not hinting at anything; it wasn't anything in the past - but when coaches are kind of on that roller-coaster ride, up and down, highs and lows, you never know what to expect. It makes it tough to come into work every day and be excited to go to meetings and things like that.

Bernie Madoff... was regulated up and down and every which way, and it didn't do any good - he ran away with everyone's money.

Make sure you know your identity is in Christ, so that when you get laid off from your job, or when you get a raise from your job, or when things don't go right, you're not up and down, up and down.

I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did.

My neighborhood was normal. I had a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone. Typical American upbringing. Sometimes we got into trouble, but everyone watched after each other, so if my parents didn't see me making trouble, another family would tell them.

I always knew that my identity wasn't in football. It wasn't in baseball. I knew it's always been in Christ and just my upbringing has always led me to have a tremendous faith that God was going to see me through and he would not give me too much that I couldn't bear.

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

Mom+Pop aren't just a label, but they were the group of people that seemed to really care about a long-term relationship. I can be honest with them, like I would with my family, but at the same time, I can expect for them always to be upfront and honest with me.

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront.

I usually tell people upfront what to expect, and that I really want their feedback and their ideas, and if they think I've got a hair out of place or food stuck in my teeth, gosh, I want to know that.

Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.

It's easier when you're just upfront with somebody. You can just learn and grow from it.

Losing busbee was such a moment of upheaval. He had believed in me... carried me... brought me through everyone getting deals around me... because he knew something I couldn't see: that it would happen.

When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.