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Quotes about Trust


Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid
A million buds but stay their blossoming
And trustful birds have built their nests amid
The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing
Till one soft shower from the south shall bid
And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring.

Robert Seymour Bridges

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness--

Sir William Watson

A million million worlds that move in peace;
A million mighty laws that never cease;
And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,
Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.
They sleep beneath the sod
And trust in God.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley," Latimer cried at the crackling of the flames. "Play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."

Miscellaneous

Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.

Bidpai

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

Plautus

He said that in his whole life he most repented of three things: one was that he had trusted a secret to a woman; another, that he went by water when he might have gone by land; the third, that he had remained one whole day without doing any business of moment.

Plutarch

He made one of Antipater's recommendation a judge; and perceiving afterwards that his hair and beard were coloured, he removed him, saying, "I could not think one that was faithless in his hair could be trusty in his deeds."

Plutarch

Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts himself.

François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

Old Testament

Put not your trust in princes.

Old Testament

Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed.

Old Testament

Public trusts.

Appendix

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly.

Bankruptcy sits beside us, walks the strees, takes coffee in the cafe, chats and eats, a trusted friend, who never lets you down

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Shakespeare

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson

It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

De la Rochefoucauld

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H.L. Mencken

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

Arabic saying

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

George Eliot

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, author and Holocaust survivor

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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