Orson Scott Card Quotes

"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."

In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.

Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.

You can trust Charlie Crist.

It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too.

It's better to be trusted than to be liked.

A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

I'm conservative, and people know where I stand. They can trust me to do what I say I'm going to do. I'm predictable.

I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

If a woman is dishonest, that kills it for me. I can't even talk to her anymore.

You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

I do not think that I am a person who cannot be trusted.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.

The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.

As of right now, I have two votes, mine and Jimmy's. I'm sure of Jimmy because he said he is gonna vote for me and Jimmy never tells a lie.

In politics, all you have is your word.

There’s no institution that you can trust all the time.

Great nations like great men must keep their word.