Quotes on Trust

We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved.

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.