Trust famous quotes
03-24-2025
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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.
-- Adam Rickitt -
All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
-- Agatha Christie -
Don't trust the beginnings, truth is told in the last moments.
-- Ahlam Mosteghanemi -
I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani -
We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani -
National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
-- Al Franken -
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
-- Alan Perlis -
I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful.... He had written at his doorstep: "From wherever you are, enter and be welcome". Who do you think responded to this lovely invitation? The militia, who made themselves at home and gutted him.
-- Albert Camus -
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
-- Albert Einstein -
Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
-- Alexander Haig -
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
-- Alexander Pope -
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
-- Alfred Adler -
The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.
-- Allyson Felix -
I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
-- Anna Quindlen -
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
-- Arthur Ashe -
There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.
-- Arthur Dobrin -
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
-- Avicenna -
Building trust is a process. Trust results from consistent and predictable interaction over time.
-- Barbara M. White -
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
-- Barbra Streisand -
I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
-- Barbra Streisand -
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 -
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
-- Benjamin Spock -
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
-- Bergen Evans -
I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
-- Bill Moyers -
Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
-- Bill Parcells -
I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.
-- Billy Tauzin -
For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
-- Billy Zane -
Remember trust is portable. Wherever you go, it follows you: good or bad.
-- Bob Reiss -
Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.
-- Brandon Cox -
Trust is a two way street. If your government does not trust you, how can you trust your government?
-- Bruce Montague -
I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.
-- Bryan Adams -
Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too.
-- Cassandra Peterson -
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
-- Charles de Gaulle -
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
-- Charles Dickens -
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 -
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Never trust a man whom you know to have acted like a scoundrel to others, whatever friendliness he may profess to feel towards yourself, however plausible he may be, or however kindly he may behave; be sure that, the moment he has anything to gain by so doing, he will "throw you over."
-- Charlie Day -
I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
-- Cher -
I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.
-- Christine Keeler -
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
-- Clarence Darrow -
When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.
-- Colin Mochrie -
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
-- Confucius -
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.
-- Craig Reucassel -
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
-- D. Elton Trueblood -
To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen.
-- Dan Rather -
Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
-- Daniel Craig -
The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.
-- Dave Barry -
The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.
-- David Duchovny -
It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
-- David Levithan -
Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
-- David S. Broder -
I've never done any advertising because I feel I am in a position of trust, and that has been very liberating
-- Delia Smith -
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
-- Democritus -
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
-- Demosthenes -
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.
-- Demosthenes -
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
-- Denis Diderot -
All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review.
-- Dennis C. Blair -
And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.
-- Dennis Muren -
If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.
-- Denzel Washington -
Have you ever felt love? Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn't exist? What would you trust: your own feelings, or science?
-- Derrick Jensen -
Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
-- Dick Armey -
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
-- Doris Lessing -
Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.
-- Dorman Bridgeman Eaton -
I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.
-- Douglas Bader -
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.
-- Duane Michals -
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
-- e. e. cummings -
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
-- E. M. Forster -
Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
-- Ed Townsend -
You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
-- Edward Coke -
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
-- Edward Hopper -
The greater the truth the greater the libel.
-- Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough -
I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.
-- Elaine Paige -
The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell -
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.
-- Ellis Peters -
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
-- Elvis Presley -
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
-- Emile Zola
