Entrusting Quotes

• The first job of a leader-at work or at home-is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.

  Stephen Covey

  Meaningful, Jobs, Home

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.

  John Powell

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  John Powell (1995). “A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World”, Thomas More Press

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• If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Life, Motivational, Live For Today

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• We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Respect, Ignorance Of The Law, Order

  Hunter S. Thompson (2002). “Songs of the Doomed”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Veterans Day, Freedom, Military

  1953 Inaugural address, 20 Jan.

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• How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?

  Cesare Pavese

  Night, Risk, Whole Life

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.267, Transaction Publishers

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• I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Choices, Pro Life

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• The Book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman entrusting them with the task of filling the earth and subduing it, which does not mean exploiting it but nurturing and protecting it, caring for it through their work.

  Pope Francis

  Book, Mean, Caring

  Pope Francis' General Audience, w2.vatican.va. May 1, 2013.

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• The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom will be smarter than an expert's. But if you can assemble a diverse group of people who possess varying degrees of knowledge and insight, you're better off entrusting it with major decisions rather than leaving them in the hands of one or two people, no matter how smart those people are.

  James Surowiecki

  Wisdom, Smart, Mean

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.31, Anchor

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• Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.

  Pope John Paul II

  Honesty, Forgiving God, Sin

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Unity in the work of service: on the occasion of his second pastoral visit to the United States”, United States Catholic Conference

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• The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

  Dave Barry

  Baby, Grandma, Grandmother

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.54, Rodale

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• The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Uplifting, Heart, Hands

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• Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.

  James C. Collins

  Smart, Self, People

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• I think that people are usually more comfortable working with and entrusting money to those who seem most like them.

  Diane Drake

  Thinking, People, Seems

  Source: www.bluecatscreenplay.com

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• People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking

  Thucydides

  Thinking, People, Desire

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• Cooking professionally is a dominant act, at all times about control. Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. It's about giving up all vestiges of control, about entrusting
  your fate entirely to someone else. It's about turning off the mean, manipulative, calculating, and shrewd person inside you, and slipping heedlessly into a new experience as if it were a
  warm bath. It's about shutting down the radar and letting good things happen. Let it happen to you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Mean

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

  Ronald Fisher

  Believe, Teaching, Men

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• It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, War, Science

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

  David Nasaw

  Children, Government, Liberty

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• There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

  Alan Greenspan

  Integrity, Arbitrary, Guarantees

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.112, Penguin

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• It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance of the superstitious observances that go with it, that we should want others to share it - and the only certain way to cause a religious belief to be held by everyone is to liquidate nonbelievers. The price in blood and tears that mankind generally has had to pay for the comfort and spiritual refreshment that religion has brought to a few has been too great to justify our entrusting moral accountancy to religious belief.

  Peter Medawar

  Spiritual, Religious, Blood

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

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• For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or trustworthy, entrusting government with power that we would never entrust to our neighbors or other private citizens might seem sensible. To me, it's dangerous, unjustified, and unjustifiable.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Government, Office, Political

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• We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So, if you don't give to people in need, you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Believe, People, Giving

  "Religion, Morality and the Financial Industry: An Interview With Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2011.

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• Not that I lack confidence in the outcome," Ferrin said, "but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?

  Brandon Mull

  Pieces, World, Outcomes

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.661, Simon and Schuster

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• Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.

  Muriel Barbery

  Opening Up, Soul, Life Is

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2008.

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