trust quotes

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.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

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.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

True friends stab you in the front.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

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

God always takes the simplest way.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

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

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

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.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.