Trust Quotes

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self - Distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

Thomas Fulle

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.

Robert Browning

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Agatha Christie

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

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Shirley Mount Hufstedle

We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.

Sandy Farquha

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

Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.

R. D. Hitchcock

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

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

A man without trust is a man without life.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Trust one who has gone through it.

Virgil, The Aeneid

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak.

Toni Morrison, American writer (1931 -)

But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

D. H. Lawrence

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham

A woman should never be trusted with money.

Jane Austen, The Watsons

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

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

George Eliot

Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.

Lady Wilde

Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Georges Duhamel

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

William Gladstone

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.

D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

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

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 superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Marva Collins

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Schweitze

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

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

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Frank Crane

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Charles Kingsley