Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Paine

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Thomas Huxley

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Thomas Huxley

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

Thomas Sowell

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Robert Baden-Powell

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Samuel Adams

He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man...

Suze Orman

You must trust yourself more than you trust anyone else with your money.

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.

Tom Ridge

Trust is a great force multiplier.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is no trusting appearances.

Robert A. Heinlein

The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

Robert A. Heinlein

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny

Robert A. Heinlein

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

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?

Solon

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Steve Kaufman

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Hunger feeds the need to succeed.

Steven Wright

[Referring to a glass of water:] I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody!

Thomas Haden Church

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

Thomas B. Macaulay

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

Tim Wright

We trust people we can count on. We count on people who do what they say they will do when they say they will do it.

Thomas Kyd

I'll trust myself, myself shall be my friend.

Thomas J. Watson

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

Victor Hugo

Women are more credulous than men.

Stephen Covey

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

Stephen Covey

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.

Stephen Covey

Trust is the highest form of human motivation.

Vaclav Havel

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Sophocles

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.