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Trust Quotes - Page 12

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.22, Macmillan

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.220, Mango Media Inc.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.297, Harvard University Press

True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.7, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.689, Delphi Classics

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the deeper, the broader, the more constructive may be the result.

Edgar Cayce, John Van Auken (2006). “Psychic Sense: How to Awaken Your Sixth Sense to Solve Life's Problems and Seize Opportunities”, p.101, ARE Press

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.179, University of Toronto Press

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

1883-92 Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R J Hollingdale).