Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. C. Fields

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Zhang Ziyi

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.

William E. Gladstone

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Walter Raleigh

Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.

Walter Raleigh

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

Will Smith

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

Warren Beatty

Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

William Blake

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Werner Herzog

Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant.

Joseph Epstein

Always seek the general and never quite trust it.

Kofi Annan

I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument for securing peace and for giving people everywhere, in poorer countries as in richer, a real stake in that peace by promoting development and encouraging cooperation. But the United Nations is only an instrument, an actor in need of props and cues from its directors, And so I will paraphrase Winston Churchill: Give us the tools-the trust, the authority and the means-and we will do the job.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Our distrust is very expensive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

Lincoln Chafee

Trust is built with consistency.

Terry Pratchett

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Frankness invites frankness.

Selena Gomez

If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.

Seth

The most I can do is to acquaint you with the authority of your own psyche - to give you a trust in the nature of your being. For, if you trust what you are, you can never go wrong in whatever terms you use. You can fly through belief systems as a butterfly flies through back yards.

Samuel Johnson

Was ever poet so trusted before?

Samuel Johnson

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

Samuel Johnson

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Roy Acuff

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

Robert Jordan

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

Tom Ridge

Trust is a great force multiplier.

Stanley Baldwin

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

Sigourney Weaver

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.