trust
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘trust’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.” -Simon Mainwaring
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“I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don’t see how I can ever trust any human being again.” -Ulysses S. Grant
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“I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.” -Michelle Obama
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“For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one’s friends.” -Aeschylus
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“Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who’s spent a lot of time in both places. They’re all hardworking, simple people.” -Kid Rock
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“I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.” -James Herriot
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“I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.” -Keith Richards
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“My message to anyone who’s afraid that they can’t write music when they’re happy is ‘Just trust the passion.’ The passion can write a lot of things.” -Alanis Morissette
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“The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I’ve tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, ‘Let’s get…
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“For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.” -Albert Claude
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“Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.” -Harriet Tubman
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“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.” -Toni Morrison
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“They say I’m the Hottest MC in the Game. If you label me that, I will live up to it. Trust me.” -Lil Wayne
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“If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.” -Denzel Washington
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“They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you’re paying them can they ever really be true friends?” -Kelly Osbourne
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“People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‘Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.’ They’re changed. Trust me.” -George W. Bush
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“I know it when I don’t know it. Sometimes I know it when I don’t think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.” -Rush Limbaugh
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“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
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“Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Sometimes you don’t know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.” -Demi Lovato
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“Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“All of my favorite people – people I really trust – none of them were cool in their younger years.” -Taylor Swift
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“I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.” -Edward Hopper
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“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don’t trust government. And they haven’t trusted government for a long time.” -Claire McCaskill
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“I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.” -Geronimo
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“The best thing I’ve learned is, if you’re going out, never go out alone – you leave yourself vulnerable. If you’ve got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.” -Daniel Radcliffe
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“The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it’s very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.” -Thomas J. Watson
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“Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” -Athenaeus
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“Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It’s impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.” -Charles Stanley
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“It’s a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that’s very difficult, really difficult and very brave.” -Nicole Kidman
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“Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.” -Democritus
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“Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you’re probably going to invest in somebody who’s going to deceive you. I’ve been conned a couple of times, but now I’m a little more savvy.” -Maggie Gyllenhaal
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“The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people’s children.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“I learned you can’t trust the judgment of good friends.” -Carl Sandburg
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“Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.” -Imran Khan
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“And I’m afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.” -Elton John
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“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.” -Lord Byron
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“Keep the faith, don’t lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.” -Paula Abdul
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“When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.” -Fiona Apple
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“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.” -William E. Gladstone
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“A poet ought not to pick nature’s pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.” -Agatha Christie
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“Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey… Doesn’t try it on.” -Billy Connolly
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“So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.” -Steve Wozniak
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“Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don’t, or they wouldn’t have to say they did.” -Harvey Fierstein
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“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.” -Gertrude Jekyll
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“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.” -Anton Chekhov
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“Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.” -Alexander Pope
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“We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.” -Walter Anderson
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“Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.” -Horace
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“Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.” -Andrew Carnegie
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“Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.” -William Penn
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“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
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“It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.” -Lady Gaga
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“The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.” -Pope John XXIII
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“I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“I like women, but you can’t always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog’s name and then I asked, ‘Does he bite?’ and she said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘So how does he eat?’ Liar!” -Demetri Martin
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“Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.” -Alexander Hamilton
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“I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Love shouldn’t be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can’t have that from the get-go, there’s a problem.” -Aaron Carter
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“What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.” -Pope John Paul II
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“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” -J. K. Rowling
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“There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.” -Orison Swett Marden
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“Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.” -James Dean
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“Trust that little voice in your head that says ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if…’ And then do it.” -Duane Michals
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“Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.” -Arthur Ashe
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“You don’t repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently – and I think that is what is going to make the difference.” -Patricia Hewitt
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“Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet – thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing – consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.” -Lance Secretan
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“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!” -William Hazlitt
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“I get along with guys most of my friends are guys. It’s easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.” -Paris Hilton
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“Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.” -Peter Drucker
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“The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.” -Robert Mugabe
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“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.” -E. M. Forster
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“In almost every profession – whether it’s law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business – people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.” -Hillary Clinton
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“There’s as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said – he’d rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.” -John Wooden
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“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.” -Robert E. Lee
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“Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.” -D. Elton Trueblood
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“For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.” -Mitt Romney
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“In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It’s hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn’t afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.” -Tori Amos
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“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.” -Paul Sweeney
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“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” -Booker T. Washington
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“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” -Stephen Covey
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“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.” -Samuel Johnson
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“I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust em.” -Jim Valvano
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“It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.” -Benito Mussolini
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“Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I’ve got people up here who I’m really tight with, we’ve made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I’ve got people in my corner I can trust.” -Jonathan Brown
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“Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” -Blaise Pascal
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“When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.” -Corrie Ten Boom
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“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.” -Angelina Jolie
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“The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” -James Madison
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“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” -Khalil Gibran
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“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
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“Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” -Francis Bacon
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“The ‘public’ scares me, but people I trust.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.” -Morihei Ueshiba
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“This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.” -Tad Williams
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“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God trust also in me.” -Jesus Christ
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“I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I’ve never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.” -Shania Twain
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“The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.” -Rene Descartes
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“Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don’t turn out the way you’re given the impression that they will. And I think that’s all kind of a con. But I think we’ve probably all been hurt.” -Sigourney Weaver
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“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” -John Adams
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“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
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“Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.” -William Shakespeare
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“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“You can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference…
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“Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.” -Lawrence Welk
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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.” -Maya Angelou
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“Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.” -Johnny Depp
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“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.” -Frank Crane
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“To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.” -John F. Kennedy
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“He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.” -B. C. Forbes
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“One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” -Thomas Sowell
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“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.” -Anthony Hopkins
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“Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.” -Eminem
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“I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.” -Harvey S. Firestone
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“I have to trust what I do and then do it.” -Ednita Nazario
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“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.” -Doris Lessing
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“Trust in God – she will provide.” -Emmeline Pankhurst
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“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.” -Benjamin Spock
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“I never trusted good-looking boys.” -Frances McDormand
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“In these times, God’s people must trust him for rest of body and soul.” -David Wilkerson
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“Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.” -James Broughton
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“Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.” -Georges Duhamel
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“Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?” -Sydney Madwed
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“Trust everybody, but cut the cards.” -Finley Peter Dunne
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“We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we’re going. And get the job done.” -Wilma Mankiller
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“Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.” -George MacDonald
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“I always trust my gut reaction it’s always right.” -Kiana Tom
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“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.” -Billy Wilder
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“Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.” -Stephen Leacock
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“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
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“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.” -Natalie Goldberg
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“How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?” -Mary Renault
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“If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.” -Rita Dove
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“Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.” -Helen Rowland
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“Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.” -Roy Acuff
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“Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.” -Robert Baden-Powell
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“For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.” -Bo Bennett
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“The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” -Stephen King
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“Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” -Isaac Watts
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“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.” -Golda Meir
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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” -Charles Spurgeon
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“Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.” -Eric Hoffer
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“Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.” -Eubie Blake
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“I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.” -Stanley Baldwin
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“The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.” -Gisele Bundchen
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“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
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“A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.” -Harold MacMillan
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