"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
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"If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success."
"I trust no one, not even myself."
"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement."
"Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship."
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."
"A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other."
"We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh."
"Pray, and let God worry."
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen."
"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."
"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."
"With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end."
"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."
"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
"Self-trust is the first secret of success."
"Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward."
"We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated"