116 Public Trust Quotes
Following is our list of public trust quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about public office is a public trust.
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Famous Public Trust Quotes
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. — Henry Clay
The essence of good government is trust. — Kathleen Sebelius
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. — Thomas Jefferson
Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant. — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. — John C. Calhoun
Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping. — Max De Pree
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness . — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Trust and honesty is an investment you put in people. — Rachel Scott
Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted. — Billy Graham
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. — Barack Obama
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain — Robert Kennedy
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. — Thomas Jefferson
Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. — Robert Baden-Powell
Reliability is the precondition for trust. — Wolfgang Schauble
Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish. — Barbara Smith
Short Public Trust Quotes
- Trust is a great force multiplier. — Tom Ridge
- Trust is earned over long periods of time, through consistent positive actions. — Changpeng Zhao
- When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. — Stephen Covey
- Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. — Solon
- Faith is a state of openness or trust. — Alan Watts
- The most important and hardest part of trust minimization is governance minimization. — Nick Szabo
- I admire those who trust and are trustworthy. — Rachel Scott
- An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will. — Thomas Jefferson
- You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line. — Carl Bernstein
- Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. — Norman Douglas
Public Office Is A Public Trust Quotes
The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property. — Charles Sumner
Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party. — Dorman Bridgeman Eaton
Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership. — Bob Etheridge
Public office is a public trust. — Daniel S. Lamont
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust. — Edmund Burke
Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system. — Hubert H. Humphrey
What Is Trust Quotes
I'm not afraid to fail...I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more. — Mother Angelica
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that. — Mother Teresa
Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today. Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now. — Priscilla Shirer
The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail. — Lou Holtz
Avoid the trap of looking back unless it is to glorify God for what He has done. — T. B. Joshua
Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you've got. Your greatest limitation is God's greatest opportunity. — Steven Furtick
Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well. — Joni Eareckson Tada
This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Power Of Trust Quotes
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted. — Unknown
It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family. — Virginia Satir
Let the storm rage and the sky darken - not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her, the Virgin Most Powerful "who with virginal foot did crush the head of the serpent. — Pope Pius X
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. — John Adams
The MORE you Trust in the Arm of the FLESH, the LESS you're going to see of the POWER of GOD. — Paul Washer
The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance. — Walter Brueggemann
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. — Morihei Ueshiba
Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious. — Martin Luther
He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man. — Samuel Adams
We're not alone--at least, we're alone only if we choose to be alone. We're alone only if we choose to go through life relying solely on our own strength rather than learning to draw upon the power of God. — Sheri L. Dew
Trust Value Quotes
Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all. — Marco Rubio
I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what I see. I don't accept things at face value, you cannot trust what you hear or see. Don't jump to conclusions without thinking. — Mahathir Mohamad
To love someone is not first of all to do things for them,but to reveal to them their beauty and value, to say to them through our attitude: 'You are beautiful. You are important. I trust you. You can trust yourself.' — Jean Vanier
Put your trust in Him and following His example, always act humbly, graciously, and in good faith. — Vincent de Paul
To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love. — Cesar Millan
Multitudes and charlatans have entered the cryptocurrency and smart contract spaces who not only lack cypherpunk sensibilities, but hate cypherpunk values, including the values such as trust minimization that give cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin their market values. — Nick Szabo
Team members need to feel trusted and valued, and micromanaging communicates the opposite. Founders who are prone to manage every detail of their businesses will ultimately kill themselves as well as lose the support of team members. Learn to delegate key tasks and give credit. — Martin Zwilling
Decentralization is only a means towards the key to blockchain value, trust minimization, which brings a host of benefits: immutability, censorship resistance, global seamlessness, monetary and financial sovereignty. Other kinds of decentralization are security theater. — Nick Szabo
A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love. — Gray Davis
Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person than trust and loyalty. — Zig Ziglar
Trust Fund Quotes
The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization. — Max Baucus
The revenue stream for Social Security benefits comes from payroll taxes, which are credited to the Social Security Trust Fund - accounting for the program's finances separately from the rest of the budget. — Jerome Powell
It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts. — Mike Pence
Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands. — Charles Studd
We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia. — Thomas Sowell
Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund. — Garrison Keillor
I'm not a trust-fund type. — Eric Church
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out. — Mary Schmich
Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that? — Rush Limbaugh
We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real. — Alan Greenspan
People Writing About Public Trust
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Thomas Jefferson |
1788 | 19141 |
 Rachel Scott |
10 | 438 |
 Henry Clay |
40 | 744 |
 Kathleen Sebelius |
15 | 46 |
 Gurumayi Chidvilasananda |
16 | 471 |
 John C. Calhoun |
33 | 423 |
More Public Trust Quotes
An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service. — Harry S. Truman
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government. — Barack Obama
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States. — Edmund Randolph
The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on the contrary, those myriads of public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. — Dalton Trumbo
We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism. — Jodi Rell
Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far. — Nicola Sturgeon
There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison. — Stephen Harper
The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act. — James Madison
I know you've got to earn people's trust, and you've got to earn it day after day after day. — Nicola Sturgeon
The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust. — Millard Fillmore
All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship. — Grover Cleveland
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. — John F. Kennedy
I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music. — Rick Rubin
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. — Jeremy Bentham
The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust. — James Madison
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society. — Edmund Burke
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. — Grover Cleveland
The press has bravely and nobly eroded the public trust... What I'm advocating is the media come work for us again. Remove themselves from the symbiotic relationship that they have developed with the power structure of corporations and of the politicians. — Jon Stewart
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity. — John Dryden
I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions. — Robert Bloch
What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor? — Honore de Balzac
Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility. — Henri Nouwen
Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims. — Wesley Clark
I think the entire pharmaceutical industry has a lot of work to do to restore public trust. — Kenneth C. Frazier
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. — Irving R. Kaufman
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality. — Margaret Spellings
The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion. — Ludwig von Mises
Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust. — Richard Branson
We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust. — Bill Bradley
It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness. — Thomas Jefferson
Soldiers must possess integrity in order to build trust and confidence in themselves, our leadership, and the American public. Among the things I've learned during my career is that you must be honest with everyone about everything. — Glen E. Morrell
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with. — Matthew Henry
Today, the only thing Hollywood swears by is space adventures because that's what goes over well. For my part, I trust my instinct and I make the films I believe in. If the public follows me, that's wonderful. If it doesn't follow, "c'est la vie. — Clint Eastwood
All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise. — Benjamin Disraeli
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. — James Madison
Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf. — Herb Kohl
No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public. — Tony Blair
The manufactured consensus of the IPCC has had the unintended consequences of distorting the science, elevating the voices of scientists that dispute the consensus, and motivating actions by the consensus scientists and their supporters that have diminished the public's trust in the IPCC. — Judith Curry
Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you’ll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you’d get by succeeding. Ironic, isn’t it? — Martha Beck
The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us--a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public declaration of our shortcomings; I mean confession in the security of a trusted and living friend. — Ted Haggard
[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. — Alexander Hamilton
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