502 quotes
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
David Herbert Lawrence
Writer · English · 1885 – 1930
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
President · American · 1890 – 1969
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
James Cash Penney
Businessman · American · 1875 – 1971
If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
Rita Dove
Poet · American · b. 1952
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
Aeschylus
Poet · Greek
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
Robert Browning
Poet · English · 1812 – 1889
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
Marian Wright Edelman
Activist · American · b. 1939
Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.
Howard Dean
Politician · American · b. 1948
Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?
Neil LaBute
Director · American · b. 1963
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie
Businessman · American · 1835 – 1919
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene
Playwright · British · 1904 – 1991
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
Harriet Tubman
Activist · American
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama
President · American · b. 1961
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Writer · American · 1809 – 1894
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Warren G. Bennis
Psychologist
In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
Kamisese Mara
Statesman · Fijian · 1920 – 2004
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl Sandburg
Poet · American · 1878 – 1967
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Agatha Christie
Writer · English · 1890 – 1976
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone
Leader · British · 1809 – 1898
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
Edna O'Brien
Novelist · Irish · b. 1932
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
Helen Rowland
Writer · American
We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.
Wilma Mankiller
Statesman · Cherokee · b. 1945
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou
Poet · American · b. 1928
You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
Edward Coke
Businessman · English · 1552 – 1634
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
Angelina Grimke
I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
James Herriot
Writer · British · 1916 – 1995
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken
Writer · American · 1880 – 1956
Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
Walter Gilbert
Scientist · American · b. 1932
He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Jose Marti
Activist · 1853 – 1895
You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.
Sharron Angle
Politician · American · b. 1949
Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?
Chris Christie
Politician · American · b. 1962
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
Ruth Benedict
Scientist · American · 1887 – 1948
America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
Arianna Huffington
Journalist · American · b. 1950
And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.
Katie Couric
Journalist · American · b. 1957
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.
Neil Gaiman
Author · British · b. 1960
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir
Leader · Israeli · 1898 – 1978
People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.
Marcy Kaptur
Politician · American · b. 1946
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Susan B. Anthony
Activist · American · 1820 – 1906
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poet · English · 1772 – 1834
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley
Clergyman · English · 1819 – 1875
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.
William Odom
Soldier · American · 1932 – 2008
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Anna Quindlen
Journalist · American · b. 1953
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. Forbes
Journalist · Scottish · 1880 – 1954
It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee Hock
Businessman · American
Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.
Fred L. Turner
Businessman · American · b. 1933
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
Garrett Hardin
Environmentalist · American · 1915 – 2003
Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
Eubie Blake
Composer · American · 1883 – 1983
At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.
Li Peng
Public Servant · Chinese