Trusted Quotes

• Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, Aggravation, Second Amendment

  "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3". Book by Jonathan Elliot, 1836.

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• To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

  George MacDonald

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "The Marquis of Lossie".

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• If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.

  Stephen Covey

  Want, Trustworthy, Ifs

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.49, Mango Media Inc.

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• Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

  Shelley Long

  Trust, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Men, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.106, Routledge

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• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Kings, Angel

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• I'm sorry that I never trusted you. I don't know how to do that anymore.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sorry, Know How, Knows

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.296, Bantam

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• Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

  Hesiod

  Trust, Literature, Reconstruction

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• Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Trust, Truth

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• Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

  Timothy Zahn

  Luck, Ignorant, Illusion

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• He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

  Theognis of Megara

  Trust, Ethics, Should

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• Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

  Albert Einstein

  Trust, Leadership, Truth

  "Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb".

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• I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

  Bryan Adams

  Trust, Heart, Guts

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• Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Rights, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Let no such man be trusted.

  William Shakespeare

  Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Freedom, Educational

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Government, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.259, Cambridge University Press

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• He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

  Laozi

  Trust, Taoism, Doe

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Advice, Trying

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.127, HarperCollins UK

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• There’s never a moment in all our lives, from the day we trusted Christ till the day we see Him, when God is not longing to bless us. At every moment, in every circumstance, God is doing us good. He never stops. It gives Him too much pleasure. God is not waiting to bless us after our troubles end. He is blessing us right now, in and through those troubles. At this exact moment, He is giving us what He thinks is good.

  Larry Crabb

  Thinking, Blessing, Giving

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• A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

  Adrian Rogers

  Christianity, Tested

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• Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.

  Bob Iger

  Jobs, People, Legacy

  "Colleagues, friends react to Steve Jobs' death, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices - taking advantage of our freedom of speech - who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Government, Ideas

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• I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

  Hilary Duff

  Soulmate, Real, People

  Hilary Duff (2012). “Devoted: An Elixir Novel”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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