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“The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.” —Henry Lewis Stimson (1867-1930), U.S. politician “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 (1819-1875), clergyman, writer “Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.” —David Armistead, Famous quotes “It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.” —Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), essayist, satirist, lexicographer “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.” —Frank H. Crane (b. 1912), writer “Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), philosopher, scientist, author “Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.” —John Fellows Akers (b. 1934), business executive “Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.” —John Harold “Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.” —Peter Farquharson “One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.” —E. M. Forster (1879-1970), novelist, essayist “Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire.” —Shakti Gawain (b. 1948), writer “Trust everybody, but cut the cards.” —Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936), humorist, writer “Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great, though they make an exception in your favor to all their rules of trade.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), writer, philosopher, poet, essayist “Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), writer, philosopher, poet, essayist “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” —William Shakespeare (1564-1616), dramatist, poet “It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.” —English proverb “Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.” —Mason Cooley (b. 1927), aphorist “I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.” —Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), writer, philosopher, naturalist “It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.” —Graham Greene (1904-1991), novelist, playwright, critic “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 (b. 1952), American journalist, columnist, writer “Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.” —Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), political philosopher, writer, educator “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” —George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Irish dramatist, novelist and critic
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