Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

Michel de Montaigne

I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.

Michael K. Simpson

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

Marla Maples

This relationship is going to be built on trust.

Frank Murphy

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

Frank Ocean

Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.

Francois Rabelais

I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything the wrong way that they know to stem from good, honest and loyal hearts.

Christina Aguilera

One of the things that I truly have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, but that I'd like to share with you is to trust your own instincts no matter what people might say about you, no matter what criticism or what negativity might come your way for just being who you are, and just being yourself, it's so important. Tonight is your night.

George Washington

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

John Ruskin

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

John Ruskin

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

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.

Edward Coke

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

Edith Hamilton

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

John F. Kennedy

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Jonathan Mayhew

To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights ...is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.

Kate Winslet

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

Terry Pratchett

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

Tom Ridge

Trust is a great force multiplier.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is no trusting appearances.

Rush Limbaugh

Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?

Robert W. Service

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

William Ralph Inge

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

William John Wills

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

Woodrow Wilson

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

William Morris

We are only the trustees for those who come after us.

Saint Augustine

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.