Trust Quotes
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
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.Johann von Goethe
We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.Benjamin Disraeli
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.Tyron Edwards
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
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols - - - "Maxims and Arrows".
No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.Charles Caleb Colton
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.John Collins
It is only by not trusting that you turn someone into a liar.Tao Le Ching
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
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
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
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.Lao Tzu
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.Friedrich Nietzsche
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.Sandy Farquha
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.Henry Stimson
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.Plutarch
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.George Eliot
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.Aesop
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #8455
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.Democritus
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Champions are a rare breed. They trust God while others ask for answers. They step forward while others pray for volunteers. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, the hardships.Unknown
Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.Jewish Prove
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
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.Alfred North Whitehead
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME.Shirley MacLaine
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.Joseph Conrad
To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, ... to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.Ernest Hemingway
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.Democritus
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffe
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.Alvin Toffle
Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.Jacob Neusne


