Trust your intuition and be guided by love.

- Charles Eisenstein

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

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. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

- Steve Jobs

All intimacy is rare -- that's what makes it precious. And it involves the revelation of one's self and the loving gaze upon another's true self (no makeup, no fancy car, no defensive charm, no seduction) -- that's what makes it so damn hard. Intimacy requires honesty and kindness in almost equal measure (a little more kindness, I think), trust and trustworthiness, forgiveness and the capacity to be forgiven . . . It's more than worth it -- just don't let them tell you it's bilss.

- Amy Bloom

[W]hat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

- George Eliot

Ultimate freedom has nothing to do with your life circumstances - it is the freedom of allowing the self to dissolve into the waves of the ocean. It is the freedom that is born through one's absolute trust in life.

- Richard Rudd

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

- Rita Mae Brown

Grace means more than gifts. In grace something is transcended, once and for all overcome. Grace happens in spite of something; it happens in spite of separateness and alienation. Grace means that life is once again united with life, self is reconciled with self. Grace means accepting the abandoned one. Grace transforms fate into a meaningful vocation. It transforms guilt to trust and courage. The word grace has something triumphant in it.

- Yrjo Kallinen

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

- Martha Nussbaum

Trust is a dependency issue.

- Edwin H. Friedman

Be courteous to all but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

- George Washington

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

- Arthur Ashe

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

- Abraham Lincoln

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

- Henry David Thoreau

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

- Richard Bach

No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.

- Konosuke Matsushita



Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

- Erik H. Erikson



The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

- Elizabeth Gilbert



To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.

- Elizabeth Gilbert



Never trust a man who is Dr. Jekyll to those above him and Mr. Hyde to those under him.

- Charlie Brower



Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.

- Baruch Spinoza



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 yourself. You know more than you think you do.

- Benjamin Spock



Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

- Arthur Eddington



Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.

- Sharon Salzberg



Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

- Albert Schweitzer



Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

- Cicero



You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi



Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

- Booker T. Washington



To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

- George MacDonald



Our distrust is very expensive.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



He got a corporation mind. He don't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.

- Norman Mailer



Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater



One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

- E. M. Forster



It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

- Samuel Johnson



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 a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

- Helen Rowland



Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

- Alfred Adler



Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

- Agatha Christie



Love all, trust a few.

- William Shakespeare



Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

- John F. Kennedy



I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

- Thomas Jefferson



There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.

- Demosthenes



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