Trust Quotes - Page 34

• The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -
  "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Loyalty, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.416

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• What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

  Horace

  Eye, Mind, Ears

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• All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Exercise, Power, Government

  'Vivian Grey' (1826) bk. 6, ch. 7

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• I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Care, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.17, Graphic Arts Books

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• The best proof of love is trust.

  Joyce Brothers

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  "Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul : 101 Stories to Sow Seeds of Love, Hope and Laughter" by Jack Canfield, (p. 25), 2001.

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• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Education, Believe

  Isaac Asimov (1975). “Science Past, Science Future”, Doubleday Books

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  A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Accountability, Liberty

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.100, Cambridge University Press

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• No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Freedom, Humor

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• To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Wisdom

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

  Will Smith

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Struggle

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• You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.

  Mitch Albom

  Love, Life, Believe

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, People, Safety

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.259, Cambridge University Press

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• I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Father Son, Thinking, May

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

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• I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

  George Washington

  Hope, Truth, Honesty

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Men, Father Son, Way

  "The bomb and the opportunity" by Henry L. Stimson, Harper's Magazine, March 1946.

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• Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiring, Broken, Persons

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• For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

  Suzanne Collins

  Relationship, Betrayal, Betrayed

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.109, Scholastic Inc.

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