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Quotes About Trust

Perhaps one of my own advisors will grow jealous of my power and try to kill me. Or someone may spread lies about me, to turn the people against me. It may be that a neighboring kingdom will send an army to seize this throne. Or I might make an unwise decision that will bring my downfall. If you want to be a leader, you must be willing to accept these risks. They come with the power, you see.
~ William J. Bennett
Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of anyone.
~ William J. Bennett
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
~ William J. Bennett
James Madison takes up the question of whether a relatively small number of legislators can be trusted to safeguard the public liberty. Such a system can work, Madison argues, as long as the political and moral responsibilities of the people remain intact. Democracy presupposes the virtue of its individual citizens.
~ William J. Bennett
Saith he, If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth is as much to say as that he is brave toward God and a coward toward men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men; it being foretold that when Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth.
~ William J. Bennett
A social organism of any sort whatever, large or small, is what it is because each member proceeds to his own duty with a trust that the other members will simultaneously do theirs. Wherever a desired result is achieved by the co-operation of many independent persons, its existence as a fact is a pure consequence of the precursive faith in one another of those immediately concerned.
~ William James
Resign your destiny to higher powers.
~ William James
We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to offer. The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, and bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have all been flown for religious ideals.
~ William James
Vjeruj da život vrijedi živjeti, a tvoja ?e ti vjera to i dokazati.
~ William James
Since I gave up to God all ownership in my own life, he has guided me in a thousand ways, and has opened my path in a way almost incredible to those who do not enjoy the blessing of a truly surrendered life.
~ William James
I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure
~ William James
He trusts his temperament. Wanting a universe that suits it, he believes in any representation of the universe that does suit it. He feels men of opposite temper to be out of key with the world's character, and in his heart considers them incompetent and 'not in it,' in the philosophic business, even tho they may far excel him in dialectical ability.
~ William James
This readiness for great things, and this sense that the world by its importance, wonderfulness, etc., is apt for their production, would seem to be the undifferentiated germ of all the higher faiths. Trust in our own dreams of ambition, or in our country's expansive destinies, and faith in the providence of God, all have their source in that onrush of our sanguine impulses, and in that sense of the exceedingness of the possible over the real.
~ William James
If we put everything in God's hands, maybe we don't any of us have to be afraid anymore.
~ William Kent Krueger
In this period the Prime Minister had great confidence in the Fuehrer's word, remarking privately a day or two later, "In spite of the hardness and ruthlessness I thought I saw in his face, I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word."46
~ William L. Shirer
People are talking about the action of the British yesterday in sinking three French battleships in Oran to save them from falling into the hands of the Germans. The French, who have sunk to a depth below your imagination, say they will break relations with Britain. They say they trusted Hitler's word not to use the French fleet against Britain. Pitiful. And yet there will be great bitterness throughout France. The Entente Cordiale is dead. We
~ William L. Shirer
Be spiritually independent enough that your relationship with the Savior doesn't depend on your circumstances or on what other people say and do.
~ Chieko N. Okazaki
Remember, I'll always be here for you, even if you can't see me. Because I love you.
~ Chilli Heeler
The three things most difficult are to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure.
~ Chilo
Imagine if one of them were turned. Imagine if one could be bought.' 'But they're chosen just so's they can't be bought...' 'History...' Jacobs spoke with terse authority. Brought Ori to a hush. 'Is all full. And dripping. With the corpses . Of them who trusted the incorruptible .
~ China Mieville
You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to do.
~ China Mieville
Just her, three men, a fidgety pig and lawful intent.
~ China Mieville
If the techs are on it we're fine, but Briamiv and his buddy could fuck up a full stop at the end of a sentence.
~ China Mieville
I have a rule: I prefer anyone who doesn't try to kill me to anyone who does. I'm funny that way.
~ China Mieville