The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

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.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

A lie cannot live.

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.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

Ability without honor is useless.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

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.

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

God always takes the simplest way.

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 was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Character is power.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

An honest man is always a child.