Quotes About Trust

And who can give to another the things which he has not himself?

When you have him as your leader, and conform your will and desire to his, what fear of failure can you have?

33] Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but please, for God's sake, don't sell it cheap.

Getting rid of these, too, requires looking to God for help, trusting him alone, and submitting to his direction. [47] Then if you're not willing to do this – all tears and agitation – you will serve someone physically more powerful than you, and continue to look outside yourself for happiness, fated never to find it. And that is because you look for it in the wrong place, forgetting to look where it really lies.

Just begin, believe me, and you will see the truth of what I've been saying.

For as long as the Source entrusts something to your hands, treat it as something borrowed, like a traveller at an inn.

And when you ask your employee to do something, remember that she may not do as you wish. But giving her the power to upset you does no good for either of you.

But the wise man knows that all things are in store for him. Whatever happens, he says: I knew it.

A bad person's character cannot be trusted, it's weak and indecisive, easily won over by different impressions at different times.

the Oracle at Delphi—once threw a man out of the temple for abandoning his friend.

Avoid taking oaths

I, personally, was never kept from something I wanted, nor had forced upon me something I was opposed to. How did I manage it? I submitted my will to God. He wants me to be sick – well, then, so do I. He wants me to choose something. Then I choose it. He wants me to desire something, I desire it. He wants me to get something, I want the same; or he doesn't want me to get it, and I concur.

This is God's signal to you: if you want, you are free; if you want, you will blame no one, you will accuse no one - if you want, everything will happen according to plan, yours as well as God's.

But pieces of paper do not stop bullets and rockets. Paper promises that fall from the sky cannot be trusted.

There's a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates. —General George S. Patton Jr.

Do not trust the Afghans. Do not trust your friends. Do not trust anyone except your enemies.

The enemy—the indispensible devil of every mass movement—is omnipresent. He plots both outside and inside the ranks of the faithful. It is his voice that speaks through the mouth of the dissenter, and the deviationists are his stooges. If anything goes wrong within the movement, it is his doing. It is the sacred duty of the true believer to be suspicious. He must be constantly on the lookout for saboteurs, spies and traitors.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power

All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

in order to be effective a doctrine must not be understood, but has rather to be believed in. We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Belief passes, but to have believed never passes.     18

nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!