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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. (Arthur Ashe)

Don't share your secrets if you preface them with 'just don't tell anybody.' (Igor Babailov)

Trust in the value of your own persistence and obey the intuitive mandate. (Nicoletta Baumeister)

To trust yourself is to trust Silence. To trust your own heart is to trust the wisdom that is radiating and shining. All the thoughts, feelings, desires, and fears are just a superimposition that is called 'myself.' When all that disappears, for at least a moment, your Self shines forth. Radiantly, clear, and empty. Needing nothing, nourished, and overflowing. (Eli Jaxon Bear)

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. (Warren G. Bennis)

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)

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. (Claudia Black)

At times truth may not seem probable. (Nicolas Boileau)

For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted. (Robert Brault)

It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.' (Robert Brault)

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open. (James Broughton)

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. (Rita Mae Brown)

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. (Robert Browning)

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart. (Carl W. Buechner)

Trust the Universe. Trust and believe and have faith. (Rhonda Byrne)

Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense. (John F. Carlson)

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. (Anton Chekhov)

Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant. (Gurumayi Chidvilasananda)

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody. (John Churton Collins)

Do not trust the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged. (Oliver Cromwell)

I am learning to trust my instincts, rather than struggle too hard with reason... because reason can get buried in misinformation, or too much information; and it can lack the miracle of love. (Jan Denise)

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare. (John Dryden)

There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he has injured you. (Henry Fielding)

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. (B. C. Forbes)

The more we learn to operate in the world based on trust in our intuition, the stronger our channel will be and the more money we will have. (Shakti Gawain)

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. (Natalie Goldberg)

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. (Henry Graham Greene)

I desire to trust myself and have the strength to be in my art world, not feeling I have to leave it to serve others. (Gail Griffiths)

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled. (Franz Grillparzer)

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. (Ernest Hemingway)

Men trust their ears less than their eyes. (Herodotus)

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood. (Hermann Hesse)

All I am saying... can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted. (John Holt)

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. (Steve Jobs)

Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while. (Corita Kent)

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you. (Rudyard Kipling)

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Never trust people who claim they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist. (Tiffany Madison)

Trust that still, small voice that says, 'This might work and I'll try it.' (Diane Mariechild)

But we need to trust the outcome, to not be defeated in our hearts, ever, knowing that the very core of our being cannot be undone. Not without our consent. (John McEnulty)

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world – it is thin. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

You have been an apprentice long enough; it is now time to shed your protective skin. Trust! (Mooji)

When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. (Patrick Overton)

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. (Louis Pasteur)

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole. (Plautus)

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know / Make use of every friend and every foe. (Alexander Pope)

People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)

It may take a leap of faith to be an artist and to trust that somehow with resolve, it will all work out and make sense to those who encounter it. (Alice Rich)

Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you. (Don Miguel Ruiz)

Let go and trust; allow inspiration and imagination to lead the way... beyond the limitations of what the mind knows. (Linda Saccoccio)

Trust has nothing to do with moral courage. It occurs when we have nowhere else to turn, when we reach the end of our need to control. (Rodney Smith)

Trust yourself. Believe in what you see and paint it that way. (Ted Smuskiewicz)

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)

Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. (Saint Teresa of Avila)

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. (Henry David Thoreau)

Trust not too much to appearances. (Virgil)

Better believe it, without trust, there is not any fine art. (Milos Vujasinovic)

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)

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. (Alan Watts)

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. (Billy Wilder)

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. (Tennessee Williams)

Trust your intuition, your inner knowing; allow yourself to be immersed in the process of creation as a joyous and sacred dance of materials; neither listen to critics nor be one; leap into the dark secure in the knowing that wherever your feet touch down will be the right place at the right time. (Burnell Yow!)


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