Quotes About Trust

Silence is a friend who will never betray.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That's the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.

We are nothing but the oath we give.

Temujin snorted. "Never lose faith in me, little brother. My word is iron and I will always come home.

As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.

To be betrayed by those he trusted seems to have ignited a spark of vengeance in Temujin, a desire for power that never left him. His childhood experiences created the man he would become, who would not bend or allow fear or weakness in any form. He cared nothing for possessions or wealth, only that his enemies fall.

There are many who say 'I believe this,' but would they hold true to those beliefs if their children were threatened? No. But Genghis would. If you told him you would kill his children, he would tell you to go ahead, but realize that the cost would be infinite, that he would tear down cities and nations and the price would never be paid. He did not lie and his enemies knew it. His word was iron.

God giveth and God taketh away. Just be sure you're present when he giveth – and somewhere else when he taketh it all back.

Keep him alive," he whispered to the sky father. "Keep him strong and healthy. Keep him alive, for me to kill.

There shouldn't be walls among the allies

How did you make Khasar accept you to succeed me?" Genghis murmured to his back. "I told him he could be khan," Kachiun replied. "I think it terrified him.

Genghis had once told him he should never give an order they would not obey. He should never let them see the limits of his authority. The

You respect orders because if you don't do this, you won't be able to expect the same from your people. You're a part of the wolf and not the entire wolf. A wolf cannot have more than one head, general, because it will fall apart

I will need good friends around me if I am to survive my first year of politics. My father described it as walking barefoot in a nest of vipers.

I have called those who had no tribe," he went on, "but still had honor and heeded the call of blood to blood. They rode us in trust. And I say to you all, there are no tribes under the sky father. There is only one Mongol nation and it begins this night, in this place.

Nothing is stronger than the bond between people who risk their lives fighting shoulder to shoulder

Nothing sapped morale like the fear of being attacked from behind.

Do you gamble, Captain MacNeill?" "Never, sir." "No?" the marquis looked surprised. "Thought you soldiers were all inveterate gamblers." "Only with our lives, sir. Never had anything else I could afford to lose.

I fear I am once more in your debt, Mr. Owens," she said, her voice shaking just a bit. "Think nothing of it," Jim said, calmly replacing his pistol in its shoulder holster and leaning back on his bedroll. He no longer got rattled at having to shoot things, climb things, chase things, or dive into things to snatch her back from the precipices she seemed always to be leaning over. It was all in the day's work. "Please. Continue with what you were saying.

You used to be such a sweet creature. So trusting." He tched gently. "Whatever happened to you?" "You.

She flinched, but there was no return of warmth to her lovely, cool features. The ground seemed to open beneath Thomas. A black abyss yawned at his feet and he was teetering, off balance with no handholds in sight. "Fia, please. You can't condemn me for misjudging you. You can't throw away what we have, what we are together, because I doubted