Trust Quotes - Page 23

• I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Europe, People, Matter

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.232, Vintage

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• Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

  Jalal Talabani

  Lovers, Interest

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• And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

  Simon Raven

  Patience, Skills, Age

  Simon Raven (1962). “The Decline of the Gentleman”

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• He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Trust Nobody

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• We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Long, Storm

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• Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Might, Emergencies

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Marble Faun”, p.342, Booklassic

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• Trust is essential for our social wellbeing. Without trusting the good will of others we retreat into bureaucracy, rules and demands for more law and order. Trust is based on positive experiences with other people an it grows with use. We need to trust that others are going be basically reasonable beings.

  Eva Cox

  Order, Law, People

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• What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.

  Michelle Sagara

  Fear, Expression, Safe

  Michelle Sagara (2009). “Cast in Silence”, p.51, LUNA

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• How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.

  Price Pritchett

  Everyday, Littles, Compromise

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• Perhaps nothing in all my business has helped me more than faith in my fellow man. From the very first I felt confident that I could trust the great, friendly public. So I told it quite simply what I thought, what I felt, what I was trying to do. And the response was quick, sure, and immediate.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Success, Business, Men

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• If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet.

  Michael Heseltine

  Cabinets, Prime, Ministers

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• At times truth may not seem probable.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Truth, May, Seems

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto III)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Military, Heart, Command And Control

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• I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dark, Light, Promise

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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• Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

  Garrison Keillor

  Paper, Littles, Sauce

  "The Times Book of Quotations". Book by HarperCollins, 2000.

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• Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Feelings, Growth, Argument

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• I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Military, Believe, Europe And America

  "Candidate for change" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2005.

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• I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

  Billy Tauzin

  Thinking, Connections, Lost

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• The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Years, San Francisco, Firsts

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• Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

  Ed Townsend

  Obedience, Teachability

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• It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.

  Robert Breault

  Persons, Prompts, Remarks

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• As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

  John Trumbull

  Rights, Ties, Nurse

  John Trumbull, “M'Fingal - Canto II”

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• In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Art, Choices, Looks

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• We come, in our trust, unto God, and the moment we so embrace Him, by committing our total being and eternity to Him, we find every thing is transformed. There is life in us from God; a kind of Christ-consciousness is opened in us, testifying with the apostle,--Christ liveth in me.

  Horace Bushnell

  Christ Consciousness, Kind, Moments

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The New Life”, p.55

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• Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Commitment, Levels, Steps

  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.49, Oxford University Press

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