Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.

Henry David Thoreau

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

John Adams

You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

All these trust to their hands: and every one is wise in his work.

Josh Bowman

The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.

Eric Hoffer

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Eric Hoffer

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Trust in God - she will provide.

James Cash Penney

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

James Cash Penney

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

James Cash Penney

Honor bespeaks worth Confidence begets trust.

Jon Crosby

I don't trust the Bee Gee's because there's no way they could always be happy.

Joko Beck

Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.

Lu Xun

Trust only him who doubts.

Lord Chesterfield

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Jim Valvano

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

John Churton Collins

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

George H. W. Bush

The trust is going to come from performance,

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Sophocles

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Steve Squyres

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Stephen Leacock

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Stephen Leacock

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Thomas Jefferson

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

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Thomas Jefferson

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Stephen King

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Stedman Graham

To pursue success effectively, you must build supportive relationships that will help you work toward your goals. To build those relationships, you need to trust others; and to earn their trust, you in turn must learn to be trustworthy....

Stephen Vincent Benet

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.

Thomas Haden Church

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.