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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.” My motto on the other hand is, “do not do that which others can do as well.”
Trust not him that hath once broken faith.
He that does not respect confidence will never find happiness in his path. The belief in virtue vanishes from his heart; the source of nobler actions becomes extinct in him.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
Trust him with little, who, without proofs, trusts you with everything, or when he has proved you, with nothing.
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. Manbood is the isthmus between the two extremes the ripe and fertile season of action when, only, we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.
Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence in one another’s integrity.
All confidence is dangerous, if it is not entire; we ought on most occasions to speak all, or conceal all. We have already too much disclosed our secrets to a man, from who we think any one single circumstance is to be concealed.
Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
Fields are won by those who believe in winning.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Confidence imparts a wondrous inspiration to its possessor. It bears him on in security, either to meet no danger, or to find matter of glorious trial.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart the opens in return.
Confidence in one’s self, though the chief nurse of magnanimity, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; of all the Grecians, Homer doth make Achilles the best armed.
I could never pour out my inmost soul without reserve to any human being, without danger of one day repenting my confidence.
There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions, than they could be by the perfidy of others.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
Confidence, in conversation, has a greater share than wit.
Confidence, in another man’s virtue, is no slight evidence of one’s own.
If we are truly prudent we shall cherish those noblest and happiest of our tendencies to love and to confide.
Trust him little who praises all; him less who censures all; and him least who is indifferent to all.
To confide, even though to be betrayed, is much better than to learn only to conceal. In the one case your neighbor wrongs you; but in the other you are perpetually doing injustice to yourself.
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so the impure all things are impure.
All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.
Emerson.
I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.” My motto on the other hand is, “do not do that which others can do as well.”
Booker T.Washington.
Trust not him that hath once broken faith.
Shakespeare.
He that does not respect confidence will never find happiness in his path. The belief in virtue vanishes from his heart; the source of nobler actions becomes extinct in him.
Auffenberg.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
Johnson.
Trust him with little, who, without proofs, trusts you with everything, or when he has proved you, with nothing.
Lavater.
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. Manbood is the isthmus between the two extremes the ripe and fertile season of action when, only, we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.
Colton.
Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence in one another’s integrity.
South.
All confidence is dangerous, if it is not entire; we ought on most occasions to speak all, or conceal all. We have already too much disclosed our secrets to a man, from who we think any one single circumstance is to be concealed.
Bruyere.
Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
Beaumont.
Fields are won by those who believe in winning.
T.W. Higginson.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Dryden.
Confidence imparts a wondrous inspiration to its possessor. It bears him on in security, either to meet no danger, or to find matter of glorious trial.
Milton.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart the opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth.
Confidence in one’s self, though the chief nurse of magnanimity, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; of all the Grecians, Homer doth make Achilles the best armed.
Sir P.Sidney.
I could never pour out my inmost soul without reserve to any human being, without danger of one day repenting my confidence.
Burns.
There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions, than they could be by the perfidy of others.
Burke.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
Emerson.
Confidence, in conversation, has a greater share than wit.
Rochefoucauld.
Confidence, in another man’s virtue, is no slight evidence of one’s own.
Montaigne.
If we are truly prudent we shall cherish those noblest and happiest of our tendencies to love and to confide.
Bulwer.
Trust him little who praises all; him less who censures all; and him least who is indifferent to all.
Lavater.
To confide, even though to be betrayed, is much better than to learn only to conceal. In the one case your neighbor wrongs you; but in the other you are perpetually doing injustice to yourself.
Simms.
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so the impure all things are impure.
Hare.
All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.
Beaumont.
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