Quotes About Trust

How is it that strangers sometimes support you more than your friends? No, that is not wholly true--no one could be more loyal than Tonin. Maybe it is simply that you rely so heavily on old friends that their voices in your head begin to sound like your own, and when you hear a new friend's words, they fall like fresh rain. [Édouard Manet]

Waiting is an exercise in faith, waiting for God to supply in His time, not necessarily ours.

I have never lost my faith in God.

A CFO needs to go beyond being "the finance operations expert" to become a corporate strategist who can enhance the firm's valuation and brand, and win over stakeholders' trust and goodwill.

On the contrary. Babies are the best judges of character.

Whoever wants to remember himself must entrust himself to forgetfulness, to the risk that absolute forgetfulness is, and the beautiful chance that memory then becomes.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

We have not to gain his confidence or his friendship: he is born our friend; while his eyes are still closed, already he believes in us: even before his birth, he has given himself to man. But the word "friend" does not exactly depict his affectionate worship. He loves us and reveres us as though we had drawn him out of nothing.

Pénombre propice aux rencontres, à la confidence, aux échanges confiants. Calet n'a pas eu tort de vouloir s'y tenir et d'attendre qu'on vienne l'y retrouver. Brisée la glace du premier contact –un peu rude dans "La Belle Lurette"– des liens se tissent, intimes et solides, d'auteur à lecteur, d'homme à homme, de cœur à cœur. Ces attachements-là résistent au temps. (p. 117)

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

I don't need faith.

It was one thing to invite a married man into your bed – and quite another to invite him to help you with the gardening.

Men were like cars – they were absolutely lovely until they went wrong.

Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it.

Beware how you take hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holms Jr.

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well the suspicious. - Hugo L. Black

What a privilege and opportunity it is to utterly come to the end of one's hope-not only to run out of answers, but to run out of questions. To be beyond fighting, to come to that suspended animation where we are so confused and so weak that we can neither fight or run. When you come to the end of yourself, you find the beginning of God. And there and nowhere else, you find the answers you seek. You find fulfillment for the longings of your soul.

Lord, help us to see that what you ask of us is for our own good. Help us believe that the shortest distance between us and the life we long for is total obedience to you. Help us be courageous and consistent in choosing to be obedient to you. Amen.

And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.'

I love you,' she said. She nestled closer, her hand moving up the back of his neck. The wind lifted. 'Don't kill me,' he said. 'I'm not going to,' she said.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.