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“You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.”
Steve Jobs
“ Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.”
Stanislaw Lem
“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”
Frank Herbert
“Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.”
Agatha Christie
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
Confucius
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”
Thomas Jefferson
“When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.”
Horace
“Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.”
Horace
“What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.”
Horace
“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.”
Aristotle
“To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.”
Euripides
“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
Aesop
“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”
Lord Byron
“Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
“Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.”
Sophocles
“When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.”
Victor Hugo
“Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.”
Victor Hugo
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
William Shakespeare
“Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.”
William Shakespeare
“Let no such man be trusted.”
William Shakespeare
“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
