Self Trust Quotes

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
― Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

“Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.”
― Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood

“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.”
― Sharon Maas, Of Marriageable Age

“Self trust is the essence of heroism.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Take no one’s word for anything, including mine - but trust your experience.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life."

(Barnes & Noble Review, email dialogue with Cameron Martin, Feb. 09, 2009)”
― T.C. Boyle

“A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.”
― Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

“It’s crucial to practice self-empathy, for trust can’t be willed into existence. That didn’t work when our caregivers tried to impose their will on us, and it won’t work internally, either. Only when we can tap into a place of self-trust, with a reliable process of reparation for inevitable mistakes, can we build trust with another person.”
― Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience—that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible—that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.”
― Ayn Rand

“Trust yourself and try not to get lured off course by conflicting opinions that don't seem to sit right with you.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“The editing process is your opportunity to catch human errors, rethink your choices, and decide what to keep, revise, or let go. Make sure your writing clearly communicates your intent.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Never think twice, when you have decided once.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Honour your journey of self creation, no matter how imperfect it may be, every step is a testament to becoming who you want to be and growth.”
― Adeleke Aishat - Tashia

“The only difference between those who DO and those who talk about doing it but never can is their relationship with themselves.”
― Oli Anderson

“Lower your expectations from others, and raise your self reliance.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“You can be as slow as Grandma Moses; don't surrender in creating who you want to be. You can win.”
― Adeleke Aishat - Tashia

“If I don’t try too hard today, at least I never need know if I would have been good enough.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Becoming the ultimate version of yourself, compete well with yourself and beat the best version of you.”
― Adeleke Aishat - Tashia

“Trust yourself. You are the only one you are guaranteed to spend the rest of your life with.”
― Pamela Storch

“Stability isn’t found in avoiding storms, but in learning to anchor yourself with clarity, patience, and trust in your inner strength.”
― Ayoub Imilouane