Trust Quotes
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.Thomas Jefferson
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.Aristotle
The treacherous are ever distrustful.J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf on Saruman, The Two Towers
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.G. K. Chesterton
A woman should never be trusted with money.Jane Austen, The Watsons
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.Thomas Fulle
He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men.Samuel Johnson
No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.Charles Caleb Colton
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.Pope John XXIII
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.Friedrich Nietzsche
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.Rita Mae Brown
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
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.Benjamin Spock
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
Men have no right to put the well - Being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.Edmund Burke
Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.David Armistead
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.Georges Duhamel
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth.Stanley Baldwin
The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.Frank Crane
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not 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
Trust one who has gone through it.Virgil, The Aeneid
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.John Harold
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
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
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.Democritus
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
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.Henry Stimson
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.Marva Collins
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.William Gladstone
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense.Patrick Henry
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak.Toni Morrison, American writer (1931 -)
Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.Lady Wilde
