Quotes About Reliability

Willpower allows you to do what you said you would do, when you said you would do it.

Without trust, there is no commitment. And

It's never been so important to be trustworthy. It's never been so important to be someone others respect. It's never been so important to keep the promises you make to your teammates and customers. And it's never been so essential to be authentic.

A red flag is a red flag." Hmmm. It took me well over fifty years to learn that one. The hard way. "When someone shows you who they are, believe them," said the celebrated poet Maya Angelou. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me," goes the wise saying.

The uncertainty of our senses makes uncertain all that they produce:

Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.

Never trust a cat, anyway. All they're good for is stringing tennis racquets.

I don't like clever books; I like honest books.

What an unreliable thing is time—when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair." He sighed and smiled sadly. "But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest.

If a charge was made often enough, people assumed in the end "that a person so often accused cannot be entirely innocent.

Already contemplating the future, Rockefeller wanted to be surrounded by trustworthy people who could inspire confidence in customers and bankers alike.

That was for damn sure.

Try Keever again. Just in case." "I don't want to. I don't want to hear him not answer." "He's either OK or he isn't. Calling him or not calling him doesn't change anything.

When we found it you said the number would be either the client, or a source of independent corroboration, or a source of further information.

He went by something an old Army buddy had told him: a good coat is like a good lawyer. It covers your ass.

She looked at her watch. She said, "Why is it when someone says between two hours and four hours it's always nearer four hours than two hours?" "Parkinson's disease," Shorty said. "Work expands to take up as much time as there is." "Law," Patty said. "Not disease. That's when you get the shakes.

him. If your balls were in a vise, better that it wasn't Neagley's hand on the lever. The guy caved and agreed within ten minutes.

be good. You know, stick

Garber always tells the truth. So nobody ever believes him.

he would choose them if they weren't? "They know Holly pretty well," he said. "They're good enough." "Moaners and groaners?

These are promises as solemn as government debt.

Sin fallos (Without Fail)

His usual habit was to click twice. If in doubt, et cetera. Maybe it helped, and it never seemed to hurt. Like shooting someone in the head. A double tap could do no harm.