Trust Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• At times truth may not seem probable.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Truth, May, Seems

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto III)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet.

  Michael Heseltine

  Cabinets, Prime, Ministers

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• I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Party, Winning, Support

  "Davis is as dead as a DD" by Bob Roberts, www.mirror.co.uk. October 19, 2005.

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• I trust pictures, but no pictures made in my world - because I know what goes on.

  Naomi Campbell

  Goes On, World, Made

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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 love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.

  Chloe Sevigny

  House, Cleaning, Cleaners

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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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• 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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• People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them.

  Zhang Ziyi

  People, Said, Reports

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• One of the things that I truly have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, but that I'd like to share with you is to trust your own instincts no matter what people might say about you, no matter what criticism or what negativity might come your way for just being who you are, and just being yourself, it's so important. Tonight is your night.

  Christina Aguilera

  Being Yourself, Night, People

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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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• Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

  Jalal Talabani

  Lovers, Interest

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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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• There is no trusting appearances.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Appearance

  'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 5, sc. 2

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• I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Europe, People, Matter

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.232, Vintage

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• How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.

  Price Pritchett

  Everyday, Littles, Compromise

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• And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

  Simon Raven

  Patience, Skills, Age

  Simon Raven (1962). “The Decline of the Gentleman”

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• It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Thinking, Remembrance

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.225, Read Books Ltd

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