Trust Quotes - Page 21

• It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.

  Mike Pence

  Saving, Social, Taxes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When life has beaten you up and you can't see a way to go on. Trust that tomorrow will change your fortune.

  Jon Jones

  Goes On, Way, Tomorrow

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• ...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

  Alan Greenspan

  Business, Colleagues, Depends

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• If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word [of honor] is God in man."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Happiness, Character, Mean

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• If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated learning - If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

  Eric Ries

  Team, Gains, Succeed

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.56, Crown Business

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• America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

  Arianna Huffington

  Leadership, Country, Taken

  "How to Overthrow the Government". Book by Arianna Huffington, 2000.

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• Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.

  Alice Walker

  People, Matter, Stills

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• You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.

  Graham Swift

  Believe, Doubt, May

  Graham Swift (2012). “Shuttlecock”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Taken, May, Becoming

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• Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Mean, Inquiry

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.328, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

  Samuel Johnson

  Littles, Senses, Reports

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.425

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  The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

  Clarence Darrow

  Law, Doe, Prison

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Golf, Games

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• Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Men, Deceived Us

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5804, e-artnow

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• If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results.

  Confucius

  Leadership, Respect, Responsibility

  "The Analects".

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• When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

  Stephen Covey

  Communication, Easy, 7 Habits

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Friendship, Fear, Simple

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Forgiveness, Truth, Forgiving

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• Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.

  Steig Larsson

  Friendship, Best Friend, Respect

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• Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Business, Greatness, People

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• You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

  Khalil Gibran

  Thirst, Dread, Wells

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.

  Samuel Adams

  Wise, Country, Honesty

  "Loyalty and Sedition". Essay published in The Advertiser, 1748.

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• The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

  Margaret Mead

  Funny, Children, Thinking

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• Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Funny, Smile, People

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.327, Penguin

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