Trust Quotes - Page 19

• Our distrust is very expensive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ethics, Expensive, Trust Issues

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

  Avicenna

  Men, World, Nonsense

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• Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Time, Truth, Lying

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.255, Cambridge University Press

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• When all else fails, tell the truth.

  Donald T. Regan

  Truth, Honesty, Betrayal

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• Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Witty, Freedom, Taken

  In Ernest Mignon Les Mots du G‚n‚ral (1962) p. 67

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• Lying can never save us from another lie.

  Vaclav Havel

  Truth, Honesty, Betrayal

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• Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

  Livy

  Betrayal, Integrity, Men

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• In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

  Aeschylus

  Spring, Heart, Tyrants

  Aeschylus (1931). “Prometheus Bound: Translated Into English Rhyming Verse, with Introduction and Notes”

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• No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Character, Long

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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• Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspirational, Betrayal, Truth

  "Apostolic Exhortation, the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World: Familiaris Consortio".

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• We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Betrayal, Keeping Promises, Deception

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.444, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

  Dick Armey

  Children, Government, People

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• The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Funny, Betrayal, Writing

  "Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong". Book by Arthur Bloch, p. 47, 1980.

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• I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

  Edward Hopper

  Newton, Paint

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• A promise must never be broken.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Integrity, Commitment, Broken

  Alexander Hamilton (1903). “Works”

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• Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Time, Character

  John Locke (1778). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, p.46

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• Put your trust in the living God and all will be right in time and eternity.

  John Taylor

  Life, Time, Eternity

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• Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.

  Brandon Cox

  People, Porcelain, Treats

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• Trust is probably the intangible, and cultivated of all characteristic.

  Timothy Mason

  Characteristics, Intangible

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• When I was quite young, I put my trust in God--not government; and I never get the two confused.

  Bob Dole

  Confused, Government, Two

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• The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Magic, Creation

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• If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.

  John Ross Macduff

  Answers, May, Littles

  John Ross MacDuff (1878). “Eventide at Bethel; or, The night-dream of the desert, an Old Testament chapter (Gen. xxviii) in providence and grace”

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• Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Lazy, Promise

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• That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

  Alexander Haig

  Lying, Government, Propaganda

  "Would I Lie To You?" by Leigh W. Rutledge, 1998.

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• We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power Of Thought

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, University of Georgia Press

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