Trustworthiness Quotes

• Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

  Albert Einstein

  Trust, Leadership, Truth

  "Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb".

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• No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Character, Tests, Virtue

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “The Real Problems of Real People: Solutions for Christians”

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• Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Character, Keys

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

  Brian Tracy

  Relationship, Trust, Integrity

  Brian Tracy, Jack Canfield, William Rothwell, Peter Chee (2013). “Becoming an Effective Leader, Coach and Mentor EBOOK BUNDLE”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

  Billy Wilder

  Trust, Mistake, Failure

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• Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one's own behavior, improving one's trustworthiness, and focusing attention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways of being.

  Kenneth Cloke

  Attitude, Integrity, Promise

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• Self-trust is the first secret of success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Success, Trust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.148, Harvard University Press

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• The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself.

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, Self, Interesting

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• Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

  Alfred Adler

  Trust, Work, Commitment

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• Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

  Criss Jami

  Heart, People, Zeal

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.26, Criss Jami

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• Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty is integral to ethical behavior, and trustworthiness is essential for good, lasting relationships.

  Buck Rodgers

  Honesty, Believe, Misunderstood

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

  Henry L. Stimson

  Trust, Men, Father Son

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

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• Character is made up of core moral principles called the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, caring, fairness and citizenship. Each of these virtues are independently important but together they provide the foundation for a worthy life.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Responsibility, Caring

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• I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

  Alice Walker

  Numbers, Needs, Certain

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• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Relationship, Family, Trust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.365, Library of America

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• One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

  E. M. Forster

  Friendship, Trust, Real Friends

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• If people trust and love you, you will never walk alone.

  Philippos Syrigos

  Trust, Love You, People

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• Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

  Wendell Willkie

  People, Honor, Wish

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• Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Life Changing, People

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• Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

  Stephen Covey

  Communication, Cement, Built

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.

  George W. Bush

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

  "Governor George W. Bush gives first online news interview". Interview with Candy Crowley, www.cnn.com. August 30, 2000.

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• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

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• Our distrust is very expensive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Ethics, Expensive

  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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• Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.

  Sam Harris

  Lying, Understanding, Definitions

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