Trust Quotes

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.
– Patrick J. Kennedy
Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.
– Julia Leigh
All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.
– Mark Hoppus
A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.
– Steve Albini
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
– Sue Monk Kidd
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.
– Danny Boyle
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
– Stephen Leacock
A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.
– Armstrong Williams
Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?
– Ansel Adams
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
– Maya Angelou
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
– Saint Augustine
Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.
– John Akers
The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
– Jeremy Bentham
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?
– Lord Byron
I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
– Gerald Barzan
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us-it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.
– Abraham Clark
When it comes to this music, it just seems to be a foregone conclusion that there is going to be some kind of excuse for things not being able to be implemented that are deemed necessary for the successful realization of the music. I know that this is sounding clumsy and that it could easily be misinterpreted, but one doesn't have to be a brain trust to make the observation that I've just made.
– Bill Dixon
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
– Norman Douglas
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
– Norman Douglas
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
– Albert Einstein
The Social Security trust fund doesn't consist of any real assets. The government borrows fund money for other federal spending, replacing it with IOUs.
– Larry Elder
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. Tha is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
– Bernard Edmonds
I think that the Vatican is in a deep crisis of faith which they should be praying for. They don't trust theologians, they don't trust women, they don't trust gays and they don't trust nature. The rest of us who do and who are looking for answers should just get on with the work.
– Matthew Fox
My trust is solely in god. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.
– Mahatma Gandhi
I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands. I wish I could convey in language the feelings of companionship we had for one another.
– Charles Goodnight
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
– Vaclav Havel
Back in the prehistoric jungle, all the animals who trusted other animals got eaten. The only ones who survived to reproduce were the ones who instinctively feared everybody and bit their heads off. This explains why so many people, like artists, who trust their instincts, behave like crocodiles.
– Brad Holland
The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
– Aldous Huxley
As long as one knows that there is a judgement day, he tries to keep his conscience clear and to serve and do what he can. People's trust is very dear, and one must be up to it, not by trying to do what pleases people everywhere on every occasion, but by doing what satisfies one's conscience.
– King Hussein
How can we resolve problems if we do not place ourselves in the position of others with whom we have problems? How can we move ahead if we do not have mutual respect for each other, and stemming from it, trust? How can we move ahead if we do not have a common objective that we are committed to reach? These are questions that are in the minds of many in our part of the world at this time.
– King Hussein
For all of the difficulties, I am somewhat optimistic about the future. In my lifetime I have seen the resiliency of American democracy.What I've come to admire is the muscularity and flexibility of this society. What I trust is its common sense.
– David Halberstam
It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.
– Bernard Haring
We ought to change the legend on our money from In God We Trust to In Money We Trust; Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.
– Arthur Hoppe
Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone that's smart and wholesome and worthy - and then just listen to what they say.
– David Joyner
Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premisis. If I open a cupboard and see, say, 30 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
I've got three or four really mainstream double-platinum kind of artists that are kind of late in their deals, too, that have contacted us. They trust in the fact that I'm willing to stand up and fight for the rights of songwriters and artists.
– Toby Keith
I'm sure it took a lot of courage for the legislators back then to give African Americans the right to legally marry and to protect their children. For my sake, and the sake of hundreds of children like me, I trust you will have that kind of courage today.
– Sol Kelley-Jones
I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.
– Steve Kerr
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth;Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust;Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace;Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe.
– Satish Kumar
America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
– David Herbert Lawrence
Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused.
– Linda Lingle
I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your trust in princes. Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.
– Walter Lippmann
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grave, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
– Hugh Latimer
Those you trust the most can steal the most.
– Lawrence Lief
I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.
– Andie MacDowell
He got a corporation mind. He don't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.
– Norman Mailer
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
– David Mamet
If you love the truth, you'll trust it-that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.
– Abraham Maslow
As we have recently seen, the function of the anti-trust laws is to protect the poor little fellow with a mere $5 billion from being bullied by the big guy with $50 billion.
– John McCarthy
An independent judiciary is vital to equal opportunity. When you walk through the courthouse door, you must be able to count on everyone being treated fairly. You must be able to trust that the laws on the books will be enforced. You must rely on your constitutional rights being respected. You must rely on an independent judiciary.
– Barbara Mikulski
I don't really trust men who claim they are not interested in porn.
– Moby
Federal railroad regulation... had steadily increased through the years; the Sherman Anti-trust Act, passed in 1890, had been interpreted broadly as affecting the railroads of the country as well as the industrial and other combinations.
– John Moody
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
– Janet Malcolm
Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.
– Martin Mayer
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.
– Novalis
A couple of months ago I hauled my white ass on stage alongside Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder for Divas Las Vegas, singing in front of a celebrity audience. If I can hold my own there, I can hold my own at Top of the Pops, trust me.
– Lisa Marie Presley
All I really want is one outside opinion. They say, He who has two watches never knows what time it is - you have to pick one person and decide to trust them.
– Richard Price
Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders.
– Vince Poscente
Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It's natural.
– Munshi Premchand
I trust, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, that 2005 will provide new facts and will add new even stronger evidence of Bulgaria's strategic partnership with its European friends and the US. I feel sure this is going to be a year of strengthening the trans-Atlantic link, which is the pillar of peace and stability in the world.
– Georgi Purvanov
To be the first person baptized with the new water was seen as a significant act of Providence. I have always been filled with thanksgiving for having had my life immersed in this way in the Easter Mystery... the more I reflect on it, the more this seems fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still waiting for Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.
– Joseph Ratzinger
The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now. Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's - these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people.
– Ron Reagan
Therefore, as always, make of this voice what you choose to make of it. Make of me what you choose to make of me, but recognize within yourselves the vitality of your being. And look to no man or no idea or no woman or no dogma, but the vitality of your own being, and trust it. And that which offends your soul, turn away from, but trust yourself.
– Jane Roberts
Those who say there's no problem and there's plenty of time are offering a misleading argument that the Social Security Trust Fund somehow has assets that can be used to draw upon starting in 12 years to pay benefits, but the trust fund does not contain cash or bonds or stocks to turn into funds. It contains IOUs reflecting the rate of the trust fund over the last few decades.
– Paul Ryan
Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories - fag and straight.
– Gore Vidal
I find that the director's I've been working with, Gardener and Turtletaub and this fellow Lloyd Kramer, who directed The Five People You Meet in Heaven , this Mitch Albom piece which is going to be aired in December, these guys [are] all very respectful of me, but all very collaborative. They include me in on things and they'll listen to my opinion and they'll share with me their opinions. They have very good eyes, all three of them. I really trust them.
– Jon Voight
I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare.
– Howard Arnold Walter
I think vision is highly overrated today. I think what really blesses a ministry is, if you want the power of God in your life, its humility and integrity. I'll take a person who's humble and has integrity over a person who has vision any day. A lot of people have vision just based on ego, but it's in that dependence upon God that we get His vision and develop more trust in Him.
– Rick Warren
I believe everyody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string.
– Scott Adams
The people have a right supreme
To make their kings, for Kings are made for them.
All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,
Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.
Successionm for the general good design'd,
In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.
– John Dryden
He has achieved success
who has lived well,
laughed often, and loved much;
who has enjoyed the trust of pure women,
the respect of intelligent men
and the love of little children;
who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
who has left the world better than he found it
whether by an improved poppy,
a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty
or failed to express it;
who has always looked for the best in others
and given them the best he had;
whose life was an inspiration;
whose memory a benediction.
– Bessie Anderson Stanley
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
– Marva Collins
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
– Frank Crane
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
– Horace
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.
– Martha Nussbaum
Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them.
– Robert C. Pollock
When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.
– Real Live Preacher
A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.
– Cardinal de Retz
Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.
– Sharon Salzberg
The trust I have is in mine innocence,
and therefore am I bold and resolute.
– William Shakespeare
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
– William Shakespeare
Trust one who has gone through it.
– Virgil
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.
– Oprah Winfrey
You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.
– Sharron Angle
You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.
– Richard Russo
You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
– Jack Nicklaus
You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.
– Patricia Hewitt
You cannot trust 25 guys in a locker room to have the same respect and training as I do with a weapon. That I do understand. I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself.
– Luke Scott
You can't trust the internet.
– Nicolette Sheridan
You can't trust anybody with power.
– Newt Gingrich
With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.
– Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
– Larry Bird
When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
– Fiona Apple