Quotes About Trustworthiness

The responsibility is all yours; no one can stop you from being honest or straightforward.

A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back.

Affect not to set out your thoughts with curious neat language. Be neither a great talker, nor a great undertaker; be one who for his word or actions needs neither an oath, nor any man to be a witness.

Why couldn't they be as considerate, as trustworthy, as all-suffering as I had been? That was the line they took, the singers, the yarn-spinners. Don't follow my example, I want to scream in your ears—yes, yours!

There's a big difference between feeling thankful and giving thanks. One response involves emotions, the other, your will. Trusting God has nothing to do with trustful feelings.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

Today I have two things to confess. It's going to take a long time, but I have to tell them to someone, and you're the most likely candidate, since I know you'll keep a secret, no matter what happens.

If you threaten Deryn Sharp again, Volger – in any way at all – I'm done with you.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this Administration that if, at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be deep down inside of me.

And I don't want his body touching something I wear. He'll contaminate it. (Sasha) Oh, good grief, Sasha. Grow up. You're four hundred years old and you're acting like a whelp. It's not like he has cooties or anything. (Astrid) Yes he does! (Sasha)

Works for me. For the ones we love, today we're allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron)

Don't hurt him. (Geary) Do you think I came all the way over here to hurt him? If I'd wanted him hurt, I'd have left him to Tweedle Dumb and Dumber. (ZT)

I'll do things that maybe other people would be afraid to do or afraid to say. But in my personal life, I'm actually very responsible with my personal relationships.

Your integrity is more precious than your life.

I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life.

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or leg, or drowned him in the tub.

One day your knees will creak," he told them. Stig looked up at him and rolled his eyes. "If I don't get drowned by my best friend in the meantime.

A man who breaks his oath, who turns traitor once, can always do the same thing again.

He wondered if he should mention the fact that Halt had been looking for her, then decided that, if he did so, his wife might hit him with the wooden serving ladle that lay close to her right hand. "Of course," he said, hiding his smile. He noted with relief that Sandra moved her hand away from the heavy ladle.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.