Quotes About Trust

Was he the kind of man you wanted next to you in a foxhole?—a saying used almost always by men who had never been in foxholes about other men who had never been in foxholes either.

Gen. Matthew Ridgeway "intended not to impose his will on his men, but to allow the men under him to find something in themselves that would make them more confident, more purposeful fighting men. It was their confidence in themselves that would make them fight well, he believed, not so much their belief in him. His job was to keep them to find that quality in themselves.

Up to then there had been something of a gentleman's agreement among those who might be called The Good Journalists of Washington that the Kennedy Administration was one of excellence, that it was for good things and against bad things, and that when it did lesser things it was only in self-defense, and in order that it might do other good things.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Dependence breeds neither cordiality nor respect. - Pg. 77

A husband betrayed was a cuckold. A woman treated the same way was a wife.

Honor is a contagion deep as fear

To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.

It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

Commerce, . . . in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.

Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?

Trust, like the lubricant in an engine, is noticed only when it is gone and the motor has seized up.

Please don't believe anything that I've written in this book unless it feels right to you .

Obama is so crooked it is a wonder he can walk straight.

admonition: "Fear your enemy once, fear your friend a thousand times.

General Wu was about to say something and then thought better of it. Li walked him down the stairs to his car. As the door opened, Li leaned over and whispered in the general's ear: "I tolerate much from my brother. We are a family. Please don't ever do that again.

it is easy to lie with statistics, but easier to lie without them'.

Such was the mistrust of the official line, so heavy was the spin, that with any new piece of information you learned to do a kind of mental arithmetic whereby you divided the information given by the speaker's rank, multiplied by his or her time in-country, and subtracted based on the number of miles the speaker was distant from the fighting. From The Big Suck: Notes from the Jarhead Underground

Sometimes we find ourselves thinking that since the call comes from the Lord, everything ought to work out smoothly, with every potential obstacle removed. We forget sometimes that life is a "schooling" provided for our growth and development, and that if every time we went on the Lord's errand, things were to go perfectly well because of the Lord's blessing, we would be deprived of much of our education. {re 1 Nephi 3:7}

Conference, April 1989.) You may wish to read his

Faith is also a principle by which the powers of heaven are activated in our behalf, as illustrated by Moroni, next.

2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord JEHOVAH [Jesus Christ] is my strength and my song: he also is become my salvation.

what the Lord says next, we understand that the perils and problems that these men had experienced during the previous day were allowed in order to humble them and help them learn to work together in harmony. In context, the last

There are times in our lives when we must move forward with faith, and actually take some steps into the dark, before the promised blessings come.