I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

The buck stops here!

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It’s just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

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