Famous Quotes & Sayings

Khalil Gibran

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

Livy

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

Livy

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

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...

Orlando Aloysius Battista

The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.

Orison Swett Marden

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Oliver Cromwell

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Eric Ries

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

Eric Ries

If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated learning - If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Ellis Peters

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

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.

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.

Eric Sevareid

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

John Hanning Speke

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.

Ayn Rand

The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature-and struggle never to let him discover otherwise.

Benito Mussolini

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

Benjamin Disraeli

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

Benjamin Disraeli

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Benjamin Disraeli

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Elbert Hubbard

The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.