Trust Quotes
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.John Adams, Journal, 1772
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.Fridjof Nansen
He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Self - Trust is the essence of heroism.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.Bertrand Russell V. Delong
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.Agatha Christie
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.Frank Herbert
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.Jeseph Joubert
I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.Janina Atkins
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.William Hazlitt
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.Joe Lewis
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.Henry L. Stimson
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course - - with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here - - To keep an eye on the fleeting hour.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.Thomas Jefferson
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.Democritus
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.Albert Einstein
It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.Graham Greene
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.Ron Nesen
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
A woman should never be trusted with money.Jane Austen, The Watsons
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.Foster C. McClellan
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.William Fullbright
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.Unknown
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.William Gladstone
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.Albert Einstein
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.Georges Clemenceau
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.John Harold
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.D. Elton Trueblood
Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.Lady Wilde
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fea
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.Dwight D Eisenhowe
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.Martha Graham
