Quotes About Trust

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

We are all the President's men.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.

Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies

Roosevelt returned to this theme in his fourth inaugural address in 1945: We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one." We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

What remains to be dealt with is to move from crisis management to a definition of common goals, from the solution of strategic controversies to their avoidance. Is it possible to evolve a genuine partnership and a world order based on cooperation? Can China and the United States develop genuine strategic trust?

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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

In a business context we're talking about the ability to instill trust that the leader is sharing the hard work, understanding the difficult issues, and being honest in dealing with people so that all the team members feel they're in the same boat in good times and bad times. People have to feel that when hard actions are called for, their leader will be there to take responsibility and be prepared to sacrifice more than others to reach a satisfactory end.

Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

No man ever quite believes in any other man.

We have achieved most as surgeons when our patients recover completely and forget us completely. All patients are immensely grateful at first after a successful operation but if the gratitude persists it usually means that they have not been cured of the underlying problem and that they fear that they may need us in the future. They feel that they must placate us, as though we were angry gods or at least the agents of an unpredictable fate.