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Trust Quotes



"Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust."


"You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it."



"Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners."


"Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her."


"Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out."


"The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins."


"I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens."


"One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests."


"The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions."


"Saying 'I'm sorry' earns you my attention, proving you're sorry earns you my heart."


"Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried."


"How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline."I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave.""Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline."Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back."


"And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way."


"Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund."


"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."


"Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe."


"Trust is the only thing that can help relationships last a lifetime!"


"Trust is like glass. Lovely, but only a fool rests lots of weight on it."


"On the canvas of life, you are the creative painter of your success. Paint your life into a wonderful masterpiece of excellence."


"I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own."



"Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you."


"Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses."


"I confused things with their names: that is belief."


"Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."


"Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation."


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


"He confided his deepest secret to you, be always wary of his secret."


"That's what trust is. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you."



"Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us."


"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."



"We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to 'try.' Now count the times it tells us to 'trust."
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