Quotes About Trust

Honesty, which seems "old-fashioned" to the fast crowd, is the basis of all enduring success, since it brings with it knowledge of the self.

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

The nice thing about enemies is you know where they stand. This is not always true of friends." --General Sergey Voloshin

I understand why we do that now. It's a help, not a threat. It's something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.

Excuses tell me two things about a person; they aren't honest with themselves, or others, and they believe I can't see they are lying to both of us - Tom too tall Cunningham

Parents' Rule: Always give trust slightly in advance of demonstrated trustworthiness.

Here I see one pattern common to all the winners. The one mechanical practice they all have in common is this: They acquire trust by giving trust.

Each time you give trust in advance of demonstrated performance, you flirt with danger. If you're risk-averse, you won't do it. And that's a shame, because the most effective way to gain the trust and loyalty of those beneath you is to give the same in equal measure.

Instead of authority and consequence (the management staples of the factory floor), the best knowledge-work managers are known for their powers of persuasion, negotiation, markers to call in, and their large reserves of accumulated trust.

Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them.

I felt that everyone had the same sentiments when it came to love that I did. I felt like if you really cared for somebody, then that was it. It never occurred to me that people could lie about the way they felt about you. I had to learn that the hard way.

I like to believe in the good in people. But we're all going to screw up from time to time. It just happens. It really is how our best growth occurs.

My parents encourage me to save, but I do buy the odd thing that I wouldn't tell them about.

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

I believe in myself and the goodness in others, and I think anyone who rolls the dice with me has good odds.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

The amazing thing about a football team is we can disagree and fight like brothers, but then we come back together. We are able to be open and honest about things that may offend us.

When you know someone you can make a little more fun of them without them getting offended.

You just can't go wrong when you're honest. If somebody's offended by that, it's really quite too bad.

I'm never going to sub-contract out jobs for offense and defense. I'm always going to hire people I believe in - and are going to do things our way, that are going to believe in process, that are going to be part of a program.

It's great knowing going into the week that you have a guy like Peyton Manning that's going to throw you the ball. You know that during the week, he's working on different things that's going to help our offense, stuff that makes you get better.

It's like basketball - when players come onto a new team they've got to get used to the scheme and how they run the offense. Same with us in baseball. We've got to get used to each other on defense and trust each other and communicate.

If your offensive and defensive lines are speaking and people are listening, you've got a very good chance of success.