Trust Quotes - Page 30

• No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, Women, Doe

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.267, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.

  Livy

  Fortune, Trusted

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXX, section 30,

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• To pursue success effectively, you must build supportive relationships that will help you work toward your goals. To build those relationships, you need to trust others; and to earn their trust, you in turn must learn to be trustworthy.

  Stedman Graham

  Goal, Supportive, Needs

  Stedman Graham (1998). “You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• What is failure? We can’t possibly know what failure is. Most people think they do, but that’s because they’re judging how their lives should be and what they need it to be: a success. Who is to say what’s a success and what’s a failure? Do your best. Trust. Relax. Do your best. Enjoy yourself.

  Gary Zukav

  Thinking, People, Judging

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• The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

  Edward Young

  Sea, Safety, Miracle

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.201

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• She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Character, Average, People

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• We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

  Frank Murphy

  Rights, Giving, Would Be

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• Trust only him who doubts.

  Lu Xun

  Doubt

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• We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.

  Michael Howard

  Politician, Don't Trust, Knows

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• Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, - a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Military, Eye, Soldier

  "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (p. 221), 1904.

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• A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Optimism, Generous

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.50, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Being trustworthy is something you are, something you stand for and a core value you live by. It isn't something you can train for nor is it something you can manipulate. You either have those values or you don't.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Manipulate, Live By, Core Values

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• Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

  Virgil

  Horse, Fear, Greek

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• Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.

  Arthur Miller

  Happy, Communication, Ideas

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• We trust people we can count on. We count on people who do what they say they will do when they say they will do it.

  Tim Wright

  People

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• Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure?

  Francois Fenelon

  Hands, Land, Desire

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• Don't worry about this world; it is not broken. And don't worry about others. You worry more about them than they do. There are people waging war; there are people on the battlefield who are more alive than they've ever been before. Don't try to protect people from life; just let them have their experience while you focus upon your own experience.

  Esther Hicks

  War, People, Broken

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• When you're in transition, you will need to find a different kind of security. It's not one of labels, guarantees or bank balances. It's guidance - the directions of your own inner voice. Moment by moment you know what to do. You are safer than ever before.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Voice, Balance, Transition

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• People who live in transparent bodies shouldn't be so suspicious.

  Curt Siodmak

  People, Body, Suspicion

  "Fictional character: Maria Sorenson". "Invisible Agent", www.imdb.com. 1942.

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• I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument for securing peace and for giving people everywhere, in poorer countries as in richer, a real stake in that peace by promoting development and encouraging cooperation. But the United Nations is only an instrument, an actor in need of props and cues from its directors, And so I will paraphrase Winston Churchill: Give us the tools-the trust, the authority and the means-and we will do the job.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Jobs, Real

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• The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame...
  
  and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Rivers, Mountain

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.16

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• A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Sweet, Numbers

  Michel de Montaigne (1980). “Essays”

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• I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.

  Bill Moyers

  Believe, Media, Democracy

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• More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

  Francis Bacon

  Betrayal, Adversity, Men

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.476

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• He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

  Theognis of Megara

  Ethics, Should, Trustworthiness

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