2014, Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall Speech (November 2014)
Quotes about trust
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2014, Review of Signals Intelligence Speech (June 2014)
I'm Me
Official Mix tapes, The Leak (2007)
“Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.”
Written in a letter to Francois Lafargue in Bordeaux, 12 November 1866 as published in MECW Volume 42, p. 334. as "That a man who does not love wine will never be good for anything," which was a restating of the phrase wine, women and song that was attributed to Martin Luther at that time.
Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1866/letters/66_11_12.htm
Full version of the original (ca. 1942)
The Serenity Prayer (c. 1942)
It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased: it always sounds well — In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. And in a measure it is true — half the nation trusts in Him. That half has decided it.
Source: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 394
“Trusting in God is a price to every dear thing and a ladder to every high thing.”
[Baqir Sharīf al-Qurashi, The life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad, Wonderful Maxims and Arts, 2005]
Poetic Justice.
Source: Song lyrics, good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012)
“Romance requires trust—and the deeper the trust, the deeper the possibility for romance.”
Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 271
“Trust is okay but needs a long key when stuck”
Source: Philosophies from an old Journal
“How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!”
“No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.”
Source: Fever
“Does trust have to be earned? Or is it simply a matter of faith?”
Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 7, p. 105
Variant: Do trust have to be earned? Or is it simple a matter of faith?
Source: 2000s, At First Sight (2005)
“When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.”
“You should always trust the instincts of children.”
Source: Uncommon Criminals
“Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.”
“Because no one can be trusted.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu”
Source: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be saved by anyone.”
Source: Pretty Little Dirty
Virginia Resolution of 1798 (24 December 1798) http://www.constitution.org/cons/virg1798.htm
Federalist No. 46 (29 January 1788) Full text at Wikisource
1790s
Variant: [The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
Context: That the General Assembly doth particularly protest against the palpable and alarming infractions of the Constitution, in the two late cases of the "Alien and Sedition Acts" passed at the last session of Congress; the first of which exercises a power no where delegated to the federal government, and which by uniting legislative and judicial powers to those of executive, subverts the general principles of free government; as well as the particular organization, and positive provisions of the federal constitution; and the other of which acts, exercises in like manner, a power not delegated by the constitution, but on the contrary, expressly and positively forbidden by one of the amendments thereto; a power, which more than any other, ought to produce universal alarm, because it is levelled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed, the only effectual guardian of every other right.
Context: Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
“I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.”
Source: Megan's Mark
“Self trust is the essence of heroism.”
Success
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Self-trust is the first secret of success.
“I begin with writing the first
sentence—and trusting to Almighty
God for the second.”
Source: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Source: Relentless
“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.”
“After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.”
Source: Vile Bodies
Chap. 11, "The Fat Man"
Dialogue between the characters Kasper Gutman (the "fat man") and Sam Spade.
Source: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
Context: "We begin well, sir," the fat man purred … "I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does. … Well, sir, here's to plain speaking and clear understanding. … You're a close-mouthed man?"
Spade shook his head. "I like to talk."
"Better and better!" the fat man exclaimed. "I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice."
“I trust you, Jared," she whispered. "I always did. I love you, Master.”
Source: Sapphique
“The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.”
Source: Mercy
“That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.”
Source: The Final Empire
“I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.”
“We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.”
Source: Raven's Gate
“Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.”
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Variant: Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it
Context: Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
Source: 1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.