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"If you make an appointment with another, you are really assuming a trust; if you do not keep faith with him, you are stealing from him - not greenbacks out of his wallet, but filching time out of his bank - something that will be lost to him forever." - Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
"Rest your mind in the eternal present, but open your eyes to the highest possibilities of your life path. Trust the process of your life, keep your sense of humor, and, above all, remember that is never too late to experience the life you were born to live." - Dan Millman, born Daniel Jay Millman
"Self-trust comes through direct experience, which remind us to pay attention first to our own experience, not to advice from a book or teacher." - Dan Millman, born Daniel Jay Millman
"Trust... begins with self-trust." - Dan Millman, born Daniel Jay Millman
"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations." - Elton Trueblood, fully David Elton Trueblood
"To begin with, it is just One Mind, all One; then we generate all the boundaries and definitions. As soon as we define ourselves in relation to another we feel more comfortable, because now we know how to be and to act. To go into a situation completely ignorant of our role is very scary. We really have to trust ourselves then. But how can we trust if we do not know who we are? So we fall back on some definition of ourselves and put our trust in that... We lose our identity when we lose our definition. We do not realize it, but that is a wonderful, extraordinary happening, because for a time we are free of our boundaries. For a moment we are nobody, but that is just too frightening. So in order to grab on to some definition, a false sense of security and comfort, what do we do right away? We get into another relationship. At least in relationship, even if it is not working for us, we know who we are." - Dennis Genpo Merzel, aka Genpo Merzel Roshi
"Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a ledge that gives them to claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
"This is what I found out about religion. It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose." - Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
"All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and founder of society." - Edmund Burke
"Trust everybody - but cut the cards." - Finley Peter Dunne
"Never trust in people who always look out at one hole." - François Rabelais
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough." - Frank Crane
"Man cannot live without a lasting trust in something indestructible within him, both his trust and its indestructible object can remain forever concealed from him. One expression of this concealment is man's faith in a personal God." - Franz Kafka
"Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him." - Franz Kafka
"Trust in memory, in expectation, in mutual communication of many minds might have issued in a system like modern psychologism: the view that all we see, say, and think is false, but that the only truth is that we see, say and think it. If nothing be real except experience, nothing can be true except biography." - George Santayana
"Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life." - George Santayana
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust." - Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
"I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do." - Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
"Four things a man must learn to do if he would make his record true; to think without confusion clearly; to love his fellow-men sincerely; to act from honest motives purely; to trust in God and Heaven securely." - Henry Van Dyke
"Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Tell me not in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined end or way; but to act, that each to-morrow find us farther than today... Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Hear within, and God o’erhead. Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time... Let us then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy, you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Men trust their ears less than their eyes." - Herodotus NULL
"It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over." - Hosea Ballou
"When young, we trust ourselves too much and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute." - James Bryant Conant
"When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen." - James Freeman Clarke
"Things infinite and divine… are given not so much for definition as for trust; are less the objects we think of than the very tone and color of our thought, the tension of our love, the unappeasable thirst of grief and reverence." - James Martineau
"Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody." - John Churton Collins
"By trusting another we often win his trust... Trusting often makes Fidelity." - John Clarke
"Treason is greatest where trust is greatest." - John Dryden
"I can forgive a foe, but not a mistress and a friend; treason is there in its most horrid shape, where trust is greatest!" - John Dryden
"All empire is no more than power in trust." - John Dryden
"Man is by nature a learning animal. Birds fly, fish swim; man thinks and learns. Therefore, we do not need to “motivate” children into learning, by wheedling, bribing, or bullying. We do not need to keep picking away at their minds to make sure they are learning. What we need to do, and all we need to do, is bring as much of the world as we can into the school and the classroom; give children as much help and guidance as they need and ask for; listen respectfully when they feel like talking; and then get out of the way. We can trust them to do the rest." - John Holt, fully John Caldwell Holt
"Superstition is but the fear of belief, religion is the confidence and trust. The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home." - John Milton
"What is required to participate more fully in our own health and well-being is simply to listen more carefully and to trust what we hear, to trust the messages from our own life, from our own body and mind and feelings." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
"The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness." - Joseph Addison
"Creativity requires faith... creativity requires receptivity and profound trust." - Julia Cameron
"Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity." - Kahlil Gibran
"It is better to trust in courage than luck." - Latin Proverbs
"He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived." - Leonardo da Vinci, fully Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
"Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant passion to which the others are subordinate. Discover this governing passion in every individual; and when you have found the master passion of a man, remember never to trust to him where that passion is concerned." - Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
"When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned." - Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
"All plants, animals, and men are already in eternity, traveling across the face of time. Whence we know not. Whither, who is able to say? Let us have one world at a time, and let us make the journey one of joy to our fellow passengers, and just as convenient and happy for them as we can, and trust the rest as we trust life." - Luther Burbank
"Property is a divine trust. Things are tools, not prizes. Life is not for self-indulgence, but for self-devotion. When instead of saying, “The world owes me a living,” men shall say, “I owe the world a life,” then the kingdom will come in power. We owe everything to God but our sins... So live, that when thy summons comes to give an account of thy stewardship, it may be done with joy, and not with grief!" - Maltbie Babcock, fully Maltbie Davenport Babcock
"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
"We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country." - Margaret Mead
"There is nothing to test the perfection of love better than trust. Wholehearted love for another person carries confidence with it. Whatever one dares to trust God for, he really finds in God and a thousand times more." - Meister Eckhart, formally Meister von Hochheim