Top 28 Quotes On Giving Someone The Benefit Of The Doubt
#1. Always consider giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game ... And if it's a game, then you need to win.
Taylor Swift
#2. I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.
Taylor Swift
#3. Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt. If you look at the poll numbers, people knew Nixon was deeply involved in Watergate and stayed with him for a long time. It's a natural tendency.
John Dean
#4. I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.
James McAvoy
#5. Occasionally I would like the German people to give us the benefit of the doubt, given our history, as opposed to assuming the worst
assuming that we have been consistently your strong partners and that we share a common set of values.
Barack Obama
#6. Honor your parents by not judging them. Give them the benefit of doubt.
Michael Jackson
#7. If people are rude, that may be the end of the conversation, and maybe we won't have a subsequent conversation. But I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt and believing the best about the person.
Michele Bachmann
#8. I tend to like people that are generous and give other people the benefit of the doubt.
Tina Weymouth
#9. When the trust is high, you get the trust dividend. Investors invest in brands people trust. Consumers buy more from companies they trust, they spend more with companies they trust, they recommend companies they trust, and they give companies they trust the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong.
Stephen Covey
#10. [I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.
Christopher Hitchens
#11. Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.
Brander Matthews
#12. If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single one of them simply made an honest mistake, then doesn't common sense tell us that maybe the tax code is just a little too complex?
Glenn Beck
#13. Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.
John Katzenbach
#14. Pudge, my friend, we are indefuckingstructible.
John Green
#15. Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.
Nancy Pearcey
#17. Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#18. If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?
Jonah Goldberg
#19. I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate.
Alonso Duralde
#20. You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first, hunger is not wrong.
Anne Sexton
#21. I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
Brian Eno
#22. But there's the beauty of life beyond the bubble. It's possible for someone to see your wicked bits and still love you.
Kristin Chenoweth
#23. What was the first thing a man must do before he can be a man? He must be born. He must leave the womb; and once left, it could not be re-entered.
Isaac Asimov
#24. The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect.
Gwendoline Christie
#25. One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the doubt even to one's enemies
Garry Kasparov
#26. People always tend to give the benefit of the doubt to allow people to explain the context [of their words].
Keli Goff
#27. If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?
Carl E. Olson
#28. Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.
Julian Baggini