Quotes about Trust

People need to know that you have high expectations of them.

Only secure leaders exhibit servanthood.

It may sound corny, but it's really true: people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Leading with a lack of integrity is choosing to fail before taking your first step."

People don't care what you know until they know you care.

Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.

For a team to succeed, responsibility must go down deep into the organization, down to the roots. Getting that to happen requires a leader who will delegate responsibility and authority to the team. Stephen Covey remarked, "People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work, because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses." Good leaders seldom restrict their teams; they release them."

The respect that leadership must have requires that one's ethics be without question. A leader not only stays above the line between right and wrong, he stays well clear of the 'gray areas.

To get the best out of people, leaders must ask for the best from people.

People don't learn from people they don't value.

Trust must be built day by day. It calls for consistency. Some of the ways a leader can betray trust include: breaking promises, gossiping, withholding information, and being two-faced. These actions destroy the environment of trust necessary for the growth of potential leaders. And when a leader breaks trust, he must work twice as hard to regain it.

Without confidence in Christ we could be tempted to become egocentric and cocky. Without confidence in ourselves we are defeated, powerless Christians. Without confidence in others we are suspicious and untrusting.