Quotes on Trust

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.

Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put to yourself two questions - namely, what is your motive for giving it, and what is it likely to be worth? If these questions were always asked, and honestly answered, there would be less advice given.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs continue therefore to be held at second hand through trusting others, and in the great majority of cases our trust is placed in the authority of comparatively few people of widely acknowledged standing.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.

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.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.