Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan of Arc

Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.

Garrison Keillor

On investments, 1998: 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, 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.

Melody Beattie

We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.

James Macdonald

When you say, I don't know exactly what God is doing, but I know he's in control that's evidence you're trusting Him.

James Madison

The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less informed part of the community. They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the preceding.

James Madison

The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.

Eric Sevareid

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

Lord Chesterfield

In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informationsof others.

Mahatma Gandhi

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust...

Hermann Hesse

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on!

Hesiod

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

Herodotus

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

Henry James Sumner Maine

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

Henry L. Stimson

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Henry L. Stimson

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

Henry Clay

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Henry Fielding

It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.

Kate Winslet

It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!

Judith Malina

The natural order will emerge only if we let go of the fear of the disorder, we trust each other.

Han Fei

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.

Grantland Rice

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

John Dryden

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

John Dryden

Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Women are proverbially credulous.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

John C. Calhoun

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

Harriet Tubman

Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,' an' He always did.

Francois Fenelon

Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure?

Livy

It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.