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Best Quotes About Trust (Top 100)
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare -
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
JRR Tolkien -
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway -
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
Maya Angelou -
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie Ten Boom -
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...
Umberto Eco -
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock -
If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
Terry Pratchett -
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein -
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw -
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Doris Lessing -
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
George MacDonald -
Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It's what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don't let them take that from you.
Sherrilyn Kenyon -
Listen to many, speak to a few.
William Shakespeare -
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Oscar Wilde -
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius -
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Stephen King -
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
Pericles -
Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.
Julianne Moore -
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
Harry S. Truman -
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
Elvis Presley -
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
Thomas Paine -
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams -
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
Toni Morrison -
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
Avicenna -
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin Disraeli -
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein -
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
Peace Pilgrim -
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
Marva Collins -
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Stanley Baldwin -
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill -
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Kahlil Gibran -
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Robert E. Lee -
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Alfred Adler -
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene -
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw -
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
Muhammad Ali -
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir -
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
Nikita Khrushchev -
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant -
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!
William Allen White -
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel Johnson -
Trust me, ... I know where my heart is and my heart's right here. I'm going to keep doing everything because I love to do it, but I will never sacrifice my time between the ropes. That's no shot to anybody. Everybody's got different career paths. This is mine.
John Cena -
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George MacDonald -
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
Benjamin Franklin -
Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.
Johnny Depp -
Trust in God - she will provide.
Emmeline Pankhurst -
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot -
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
Frank Crane -
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop -
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
Aeschylus -
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell -
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein -
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
George Eliot -
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
Natalie Goldberg -
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder -
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
Emile Zola -
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James Madison -
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
Harriet Tubman -
Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.
Jon Kabat-Zinn -
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
Michel de Montaigne -
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow -
Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
Eubie Blake -
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. e. cummings -
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Walt Kelly -
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
Billy Connolly -
You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
Ingrid Bergman -
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy -
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
Charles Krauthammer -
Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
James Dean -
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Henry Clay -
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Herodotus -
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley -
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown -
Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?
Helena Bonham Carter -
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
Emanuel Swedenborg -
I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
Jim Valvano -
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
Harold MacMillan -
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski -
It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
Benito Mussolini -
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Joyce Brothers -
Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
Barbara Smith -
Trust one who has gone through it.
Virgil -
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.
Duane Michals -
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
Isaac Watts -
Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
Grantland Rice -
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.
Steve Kerr -
I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.
Joss Whedon -
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
Michael Ondaatje -
Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
Dick Armey -
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
Barbra Streisand -
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt -
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
Even More Trust Quotes
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger -
When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.
Angelina Jolie -
Lying can never save us from another lie.
Vaclav Havel -
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
John Calvin -
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
Janet Malcolm -
You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
Bob Geldof -
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. Forbes -
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon -
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
John Churton Collins -
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe
Satish Kumar -
God knows best. We can trust Him with our lives as well as our eternal souls. He does not take something from us without filling that spot with something just as good—- and because it's from Him, even much better
Janette Oke -
A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
Barbra Streisand -
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
Thomas J. Watson -
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
Georges Duhamel -
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings -
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
Eric Sevareid -
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Blaise Pascal -
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
Steven Brust -
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad -
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
Eric Hoffer -
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
Finley Peter Dunne -
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Democritus -
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Charles de Gaulle -
Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible
Cherie Carter-Scott -
If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.
Henry A. Wallace -
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
Norman Mailer -
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master
John Dryden -
Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell -
Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.
Noel Coward -
For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
Billy Zane -
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
William Penn -
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
Kate Chopin -
Don't trust anyone over thirty
Jerry Rubin -
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Horace -
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
Oliver Cromwell -
We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.
David Horowitz -
Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.
Bob Taft -
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Agatha Christie -
Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph Joubert -
You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.
Bill Cosby -
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams -
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.
Boris Trajkovski -
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
Martin Van Buren -
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
Helen Rowland -
You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.
Joe Moore -
The glue that holds all relationships together - including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Brian Tracy -
Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
James Cash Penney -
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
John Dryden -
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
Angelina Grimke -
I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
Cher -
Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.
Roy Acuff -
Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.
Jules Feiffer -
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
Mary Baker Eddy -
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Henry L. Stimson -
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Thomas Jefferson -
Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.
Steve Albini -
Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.
Chanakya -
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Anderson -
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
Eliza Cook -
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
Art Spiegelman -
How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?
Mary Renault -
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
Daniel Barenboim -
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
Peter Ueberroth -
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow's falser than the former day.
John Dryden -
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington -
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Pope John XXIII -
You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.
Bryan Singer -
You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.
Jane Seymour -
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
Euripides -
For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.
Gao Xingjian -
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E. B. White -
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin -
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore -
As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
John Trumbull -
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
Lord Chesterfield -
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
Charles Henry Parkhurst -
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope -
I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.
General George S. Patton -
I don't really trust a sane person.
Lyle Alzado -
Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.
Thomas Haynes Bayly -
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
D. Elton Trueblood -
Trust is a great force multiplier.
Tom Ridge -
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Calvin Coolidge -
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
Joseph Conrad -
But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.
Rupert Brooke -
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
George Herbert -
We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.
Frank Murphy -
We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.
Art Hoppe -
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein -
Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it
Grenville Kleiser -
Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.
Joey Skaggs -
There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government
Senator John Kerry -
I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa -
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
Saint Augustine -
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie -
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb
Patanjali -
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
D. H. Lawrence -
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Zig Ziglar -
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence
Jean-Paul Sartre -
Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.
Thomas Campbell -
Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
Samuel Butler -
You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.
Graham Swift -
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Johann Kaspar Lavater -
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so much time trying to control our feelings out of fear that something may happen, that somebody may not love us, or walk away or die. It's only when you stop living in that fear of what other people might do to you or how they will react, only then are you free to be alive.
Elisabeth Shue -
"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""
Ansel Adams -
Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
Alfred, Lord Tennyson -
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Thomas Jefferson -
By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
Homer -
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.
Michael Howard -
All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
John Calvin -
Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.
Benjamin Franklin -
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin Franklin -
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Aeschylus -
Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed
Publilius Syrus -
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Dr. Joyce Brothers -
The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie Curie -
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
Cardinal de Retz -
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
Albert Einstein