March - Trustworthiness
Be responsible and dependable in all that you do.
It is more shameful to distrust oneís friends than to be deceived by them.
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FranÁois duc de la Rochefoucauld, 17th-century French memoirist and philosopher
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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FranÁois duc de la Rochefoucauld, 17th-century French memoirist and philosopher
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 18th-century French philosopher
More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
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Francis Bacon, 16th-century English philosopher and essayist
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betrayin
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Janet Malcolm, 20th-century American journalist and author (The Journalist and the Murderer)
How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?
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Michael Josephson, late 20th-century American ethicist
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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Warren Bennis
Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. Look not through the sheltering bars Upon tomorrow; God will help thee bear what comes of joy and sorrow.
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Mary F. Butts
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.
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Camillo Benso Conte Di Cavour
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love
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and to put its trust in life.
Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected
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for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
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Frank Crane
No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted.
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Elsa Einstein
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
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Jewish Proverb
She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.
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Cardinal Jean Francois de Retz
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
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Helen Rowland
If you can't trust people, who can you trust?
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John Widdicombe
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
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Oscar Wilde
My father used to say: Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common.
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Stark Young
