Quotes About Trust

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

Things have no power that humans don't put there.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

There is something so pure and frank and noble about him that to doubt his sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .