Trust Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• I've never done any advertising because I feel I am in a position of trust, and that has been very liberating

  Delia Smith

  Done, Advertising, Feels

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Disappointment, Needs, World

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.199, Zondervan

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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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• 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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• Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

  Ben Maddow

  Thinking, Noir, Taught

  "Fictional character: Doc Riedenschneider". "The Asphalt Jungle", 1950.

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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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• I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

  Robert Browning

  Time, Spring, Autumn

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.192, Pearson Education

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• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  Samuel Butler

  Print Media, People, Ironic

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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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

  Honesty, Business, Men

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.11724, Delphi Classics

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• A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Rely Upon, Honor

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