Reliability Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series

Aesop
“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”
Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Senectute, De Amicitia

Erik Pevernagie
“Truth' and 'facts' are 'sworn enemies,' but facts are often torn into a smokescreen and camouflaged into an appearance of alluring reliability. Only gullible people might swallow this for fear of being treated like dummies. ("The hidden sides of his character")”
Erik Pevernagie

Idries Shah
“You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.”
Idries Shah, Reflections

“...if a human knows shame then he knows boundaries, and if he knows boundaries then he's reliable.”
priest, 镇魂

Ennius
“Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur'

[A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]”
Quintus Ennius

H. Rider Haggard
“...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.”
H. Rider Haggard, She

Vincent H. O'Neil
“When you have character, you hold yourself accountable to yourself.”
Vincent H. O'Neil, The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life

Frank Sonnenberg
“You can be the most talented person in the world, but if you’re not reliable, you’re going nowhere fast.”
Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“Toilet paper is like an unreliable bridge, you are gonna have to walk across mud valley from time to time.”
Nuclear Circus, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

James Clear
“Being good at what you do is partially about competence, but not exclusively.
Two other things that matter:
Reliability. You do what you say you're going to do—on time and as expected.
Enthusiasm. You're excited to be here and eager to work on this problem.
Skills matter, but in many cases it's your reliability or attitude that separates you from the pack.”
James Clear

Jack Weatherford
“Although there are many things you can rely on, no one is more reliable than yourself.”
Jack Weatherford, The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

Brian  Christian
“In packet switching, on the other hand, the proliferation of paths in a growing network becomes a virtue: there are now that many more ways for data to flow, so the reliability of the network increases exponentially with its size.”
Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Victoria Pade
“When you give your all to another person and he throws it in your face, you stop short and wonder why.”
Victoria Pade, Divine Decadence

Steven Magee
“Budget airlines often have serious customer service problems, overbooking of flights, rescheduling of passengers, lying about passenger refunds, delays and reliability issues.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“I am losing confidence in the reliability of air travel.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“Cars typically become unreliable after a decade of use.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“There is nothing worse than wondering when your car is going to break down next and how much the repair will cost!”
Steven Magee

Leonora Carrington
“As pessoas acima dos sete e abaixo dos setenta não são nada confiáveis, a menos que sejam gatos.”
Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet

Penelope Lively
“That's the kind of thing that keeps people sane, she thought at rough moments. Constancy. That night will follow day. That the world at least is reliable.”
Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness

“Even a thousand acts of kindness can be undone by a single unintentional harm, revealing the fragility of trust in human relationships, and the harsh truth stares into one's eyes that humans are often so self-centered and selfish that reliability and reciprocity seems an illusion in this world.”
Renuka Goria

Utibe Samuel Mbom
“One of the qualities that keeps your company shining is integrity.”
Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

Utibe Samuel Mbom
“If you are frank in your transactions, you will always thrive, because sincerity is a virtue that builds rank.”
Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

Utibe Samuel Mbom
“Frankness is not madness, and sincerity is not stupidity.”
Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

Ayoub Imilouane
“Trust isn’t built in loud promises, but in quiet moments where someone shows up — again and again — without needing to be asked.”
Ayoub Imilouane, Tales of Habib the Hoaxter: Sometimes Hoaxed, Always Good for a Laugh

Ayoub Imilouane
“Strong trust is built brick by brick, through honesty, consistency, and showing up even when it’s hard to keep the promise.”
Ayoub Imilouane

Ayoub Imilouane
“True respect and trust grow when we honor our words with consistent actions.”
Ayoub Imilouane

“You’re not being mean—you’re being mature.
Holding people accountable isn’t rejection—it’s protection.
You’re not building walls. You’re building wisdom.
God is teaching you to stop renting space to unreliability.
If they can’t honor your presence,
They don’t deserve your permanence.”
Dr. Angela L. Hood

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