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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

Life, Winning, Game

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein

Truth, Small, Cannot

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein

Truth, Important, Small

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
George MacDonald

Loved, Greater, Compliment

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Alone, Themselves

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Whenever

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

History, Government, Him

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Thomas Jefferson

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
Lao Tzu

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
Tupac Shakur

Bad, Rather, Cold

Let no such man be trusted.
William Shakespeare

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
Erma Bombeck

Life, Women, Sex

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
Patrick Henry

Cannot, Last, Defense

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Big, Poor

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
Joyce Brothers

Life, Person, Become

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
John Wooden

Trust, Time, Find

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
Mitt Romney

God, Freedom, Government

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.
Mike Tyson

Him, Said, Worst

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell

Great, Fear, Nation

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
John Ruskin

When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.
Tom Kite

Time, Morning, Rain

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Samuel Johnson

Secret, Known, Vanity

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S. Truman

Good, Human, Thought

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb Colton

Good, Power, Best

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
Hesiod

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.
Bryan Adams

Trust, Heart, Everything

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
John Webster

Best, Friends, Old

I never trusted good-looking boys.
Frances McDormand

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.
Michael Reagan

Dad, Adult, Male

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.
Claire McCaskill

Trust, Time, Government

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