Trusted Quotes

“Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Let there be consistency in whatever you do and whatever you say. If what you think and say is mismatching with what you do, you can’t really be trusted.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of human beings come about in the same way. For hatred of human beings arises from artlessly trusting somebody to excess, and believing that human being to be in every way true and sound and trustworthy, and then a little later discovering that this person is wicked and untrustworthy - and then having this experience again with another. And whenever somebody experiences this many times, and especially at the hands of just those he might regard as his most intimate friends and comrades, he then ends up taking offense all the time and hates all human beings and believes there's nothing at all sound in anybody.”
― Plato, Phaedo

“Great leaders are most wanted. They are most wanted for what they do with their gifts and talents. Their dreams are so unique in such a way that their presence becomes a source of hope and courage for others to thread on along. Why won't they look for them?”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Trust. And be trusted.”
― Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

“Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.”
― Lolly Daskal, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

“In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and against the starvation. We survived because we trusted one another.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“When your intuition is strong, follow it.”
― Lolly Daskal, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

“When we as human beings, are trusted with life, but lack the value thereof, we are only left with one thing – abuse!”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.”
― Lolly Daskal, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

“Don’t brood on what has not yet come, nor rejoice at what has not yet happened.
The patient man prolongs friendship;
he who destroys a case will not be trusted.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“Question the trustworthiness of someone who insists to be trusted without earning it...”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“And people in love are not to be trusted.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“You will always be tested, before you can be trusted.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“The most gut-wrenching experience anyone will endure, is knowing you’ve been used and lied to by someone you trusted.”
― R.J. Intindola

“It takes a lot of heart to build trust, even more to keep the trust.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“I always video record police officers because they cannot be trusted.”
― Steven Magee

“Police harassment of the public has gone too far and it is unlikely they will ever be trusted by the public again.”
― Steven Magee

“Now I was defined by the only One who could ascribe definite, concrete, objective value to an object, the only One whose opinion wasn’t subjective and fleeting, the only One whose existence wasn’t slowly passing away, and the only One who wouldn’t ever let me down. His words had always been true; the only difference was that now I trusted them enough to build my life on them.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose