Quote

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.