Trust Quotes - Page 26

• The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Teacher, Military, Teaching

  "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (p. 221), 1904.

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• 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.

  Mary Schmich

  Running, Support You, Might

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• I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Criticism, Sincerity, Anticipate

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• It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.

  Dorothy Stratten

  Husband, Goal, Way

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• And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Kings, Dust, Rivers

  Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

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• You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Skeptical

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

  Bob Taft

  September 11, Safe, Innocence

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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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• There is no trusting appearances.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Appearance

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

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• It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Yield, Why Not, Realizing

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• Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Commitment, Levels, Steps

  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.49, Oxford University Press

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• In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

  Rowan Williams

  Fog, Hands, Haze

  "I don't come to it with a fixed agenda". www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2002.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

  Garrison Keillor

  Paper, Littles, Sauce

  "The Times Book of Quotations". Book by HarperCollins, 2000.

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• It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.

  Robert Breault

  Persons, Prompts, Remarks

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• We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Long, Storm

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• Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Feelings, Growth, Argument

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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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