Trust Quotes - Page 23

• In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Art, Choices, Looks

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• As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

  John Trumbull

  Rights, Ties, Nurse

  John Trumbull, “M'Fingal - Canto II”

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• Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

  Ed Townsend

  Obedience, Teachability

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• To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights ...is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Men, Law, Play

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• A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, People, Quality

  Thomas Paine, Mark Philp (2008). “Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings”, p.238, Oxford University Press

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• The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Years, San Francisco, Firsts

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• My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."

  Stark Young

  Mistake, Father, People

  Stark Young (1935). “Feliciana”

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• I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

  Billy Tauzin

  Thinking, Connections, Lost

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• I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Military, Believe, Europe And America

  "Candidate for change" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2005.

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• When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Play, Work Out, Important

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• To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Military, Heart, Command And Control

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• Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

  Nicolas Walter

  Father Son, Men, People

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• RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Envy, Rich, Envious

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.201, University of Georgia Press

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• With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

  Art Spiegelman

  Salt, Enough, Ifs

  "Art Spiegelman: The Sky Is Falling". Interview with Steven Heller, www.aiga.org. October 01, 2004.

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

  Samantha Morton

  Directors, Forget, Casts

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• Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.

  John McKinley

  Smart, Decisions We Make, Tests

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• Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Possibility

  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.50, Oxford University Press

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• I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.

  Douglas Bader

  Loyalty, Character, Thinking

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• Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

  Sue Halpern

  Running, Prayer, Exercise

  Sue Halpern (2011). “Migrations to Solitude”, p.144, Vintage

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• Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Fear, May, Providence

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.42

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• It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Forever, Sometimes, Disappointed

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• Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

  Stephanie Mills

  Taken, Has Beens, Lots Of Money

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• I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

  Edna O'Brien

  Men, Competition, Built

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• Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye!

  Jon Jones

  Disappointment, Eye, Years

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• When it comes to trust it is better to have it than to live without it.

  Jon Jones

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