Quotes About Reliability

We say keeping agreements is a win-win proposition. And this, of course, is not new. For ages people have talked about the importance of keeping commitments and whether or not people are "as good as their word." How committed are we to sticking with it, to making it happen? This has to do with integrity, and with our ability to build solid relationships.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

I never will desert Mr. Micawber.

Never mind the character, and stick to the alleybi.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken in most instances such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible. Everybody may sometimes be right; "but that's no rule," as the ghost of Giles Scroggins says in the ballad.

Brag is good dog, holdfast is better!

Mr. Carton," she answered, after an agitated pause, "the secret is yours, not mine, and I promise to respect it.

I shall always tell you everything.

I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham's. 'Why of course he is not the right sort of man, Pip,' said my guardian, comfortably satisfied beforehand on the general head, 'because the man who fills the post of trust never is the right sort of man.

my first impression of those people, founded on face and manner alone, was invariably true. My mistake was in suffering them to come nearer to me and explain themselves away.

If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again.

Bè, naturalmente non è l'uomo adatto.... poiché l'uomo che ha un incarico di fiducia non è mai l'uomo adatto

we all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues.

CHAPTER XLV THE TRUSTY AGENT

that the plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

Friend, the Lord is intensely concerned for you and He wants you to know with certainty that He is closer to you than the very breath you breathe. Though you may feel lonely at times, you are never actually alone. Jesus is one Friend you will always have—who will be with you always—because He is "the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).

The only never you should focus on is that God will never let you down.

No matter the turmoil, struggle, restlessness, and disdain for everyday life, I can rely on the mountain to be just where I left it, ready to hear my woes and absorb them and replenish my soul.

Your word can never be as good as your bond, because your memory can never be as trustworthy as your honor.

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.