Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
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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
He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.
› Lao-tzu
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
› Henry David Thoreau
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
› Kahlil Gibran
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
› Dr. Benjamin Spock
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
› Nelson Mandela
Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.
› Abraham Lincoln
Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.
› Dante
