Top 100 Trust Ourselves Quotes
#1. Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#2. We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord.
Joyce Meyer
#3. God must bring us to a point--I cannot tell you how it will be, but He will do it--where, through a deep and dark experience, our natural power is touched and fundamentally weakened, so that we no longer dare trust ourselves.
Watchman Nee
#4. It is important-even necessary-for us to become acutely aware of the fact that we can't trust ourselves. The only ones you can trust to some extent are people who really know that. We had better get this straight.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#5. First they taught us not to trust them. Then they taught us not to trust each other. Now, they're teaching us we can't even trust ourselves.
Rick Yancey
#6. There is an unseen life that dreams us; it knows our true direction and destiny. We can trust ourselves more than we realize, and we need have no fear of change.
John O'Donohue
#7. We can trust the Savior even when we can't trust ourselves.
Beverly Lewis
#8. I never know what the next lesson is going to be, because we're not supposed to know
we're supposed to trust ourselves to discover it.
Melody Beattie
#9. If we abdicate responsibility for our choices, we may become angry, sometimes full of rage at others for running our lives, for telling us what to do. We need to take responsibility. We need to trust ourselves.
Melody Beattie
#10. If we have a very strong commitment, so that we can trust ourselves and be beacons of trust for others no matter what the circumstance, then we're protected from suffering the consequences of many actions. We can be protected from that pain.
Sharon Salzberg
#11. Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility.
Henri Nouwen
#12. Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#13. We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.
Melody Beattie
#14. [...] the reason we do not trust one another is because we do not trust ourselves. We know all too well what we are capable of.
John Burley
#15. This tree house became our galleon, our spaceship, our Fort Apache ... Ours was a learning tree. Through it we learned to trust ourselves and our abilities.
Richard Louv
#16. For the optimal realization of our possibilities, we need to trust ourselves and we need to admire ourselves, and the trust and admiration need to be grounded in reality, not generated out of fantasy and self-delusion.
Nathaniel Branden
#17. 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
#18. If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.
Francois Fenelon
#19. Let us trust ourselves completely to make the choices we must make.
Miguel Ruiz
#20. If we trust ourselves, we would succeed in our lives
Saaif Alam
#21. When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!..
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. As we trust the Lord, we start "emptying" ourselves with things that tie us or entangle us in order to be filled by God's grace and the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.
Yilda B. Rivera
#23. This is life in a fallen world, where wars come and go, where nations rage and people cry in torment. We must be strong, not in ourselves, but in Him. And trust that His love and His wisdom and His light will see us through.
Janette Oke
#24. We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. but the deeper truth is that we don't entirely trust it, and therefore have a hard time fully opening to it or letting it all the way into us. This disconnects us from our own heart, exacerbating our sense of love's scarcity.
John Welwood
#25. With the muscles of our body, we can lift and move heavy things. With the muscle of integrity, we can turn intention into powerful action. That's how we can earn trust from our conscience, and can truly believe in ourselves.
Ilchi Lee
#26. Creating and maintaining healthy boundaries demonstrates respect for ourselves and others and builds trust in both our work and personal relationships.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#27. Besides, men aren't worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we'd be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you're the only person you can trust.
S.R. Crawford
#28. In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave Himself for us, without any calculations. The consequences of abandonment never enter into our outlook because our life is taken up in Him.
Oswald Chambers
#30. no matter what you feel in your heart, no matter what situation you're put through, you can't make exceptions for God's Word. If Jesus tells us to forgive, we forgive. He never tells us to trust that person again or make ourselves vulnerable to their attacks. He only tells us to forgive.
Ashley Williams
#31. We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves
Dean Cavanagh
#32. I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and belive in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the future and then work to make sure that that vision becomes a reality.
Wilma Mankiller
#33. Spontaneity emerges as our confidence and trust in ourselves increase, and we become more secure in our ability to maintain healthy boundaries.
Melody Beattie
#34. God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love.
Pope Benedict XVI
#35. How we got together, the lies, the betrayals.. we doomed ourselves before we even started." He shook his head. "We love each other so much ... and we don't trust each other at all.
S.C. Stephens
#36. When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#37. Either we will spend our lives trying to take care of ourselves or we will let go and let God take care of us as we put our faith and trust in Him.
Joyce Meyer
#38. Our fated untainted soul gives us free reign, only doth backward pull our clouded minds when we ourselves falsely protect from pain.
Truth Devour
#39. True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.
Robert C. Solomon
#40. Before we learn what's right, we put our trust in the wrong people, and it's never good to start life's adventures, especially important ones like marriage, when we're too young even to know ourselves.
Kristen Ashley
#41. If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls "mounting up with wings as eagles" to the "heavenly places" in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#42. We need to ask ourselves a question: Do we trust God? Is he not the same yesterday, today, and forever? And if he is, then how is compromise a strategy? It's not a strategy, it's wholesale surrender.
Matt Shea
#43. If I could identify one core problem about the world, it's that we've been taught to distrust ourselves.
Shakti Gawain
#44. Sometimes, we do not believe in ourselves until someone else reveals that, deep inside of 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, love, or any other experience that reveals our human spirit.
Jose N. Harris
#45. We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart choice the last time we bought it.
David McRaney
#46. Either we trust in God, and in that case we neither trust in ourselves, nor in our fellow-men, nor in circumstances, nor in anything besides; or we do trust in one or more of these, and in that case do not trust in God.
George Muller
#47. Most of us will do anything to avoid facing ourselves
Lolly Daskal
#48. It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves.
Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another.
Suzanne Collins
#49. We don't come out of the womb thinking negatively about ourselves or others. We aren't born talking ourselves out of our true needs and wants.
Elaina Marie
#50. There is a gap between what we know and what we want to experience. Either, fear will keep us tethered to the familiar or plung us into the sea. The bridge is either God or ourselves, and with each big decision we must choose who we trust the most.
Shannon L. Alder
#51. Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.
Martha Beck
#52. We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.
Alister E. McGrath
#53. We must have faith in ourselves and our decisions, as well as trusting that we have the strength and ability to handle whatever consequences our decision may bring. Trust that whatever result your leap of faith may bring, you will gain much from it in terms of growth and learning.
Amanda Harvey
#54. That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive us.
Brother Lawrence
#55. When we surrender every area of our lives- including our finances-to God, then we are free to trust Him to meet our needs. But if we would rather hold tightly to those things that we possess, then we find ourselves in bondage to those very things.
Larry Burkett
#56. Remember that underlying all our fears is a lack of trust in ourselves.
Susan Jeffers
#57. If we not acknowledge ourselves as Kings of the earth we cannot justify the trust of God.
Sunday Adelaja
#58. When we pray, we relieve ourselves of responsibility. We let go and let God. We take our hands off and put our concerns into the hands of Almighty God. And trust me, He can handle whatever we put in His hands.
Mark Batterson
#59. I'd rather trust the versions of ourselves we don't remember than trust people who don't know us at all.
Colleen Hoover
#60. We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.
Aung San
#61. I can tell you what women need in general. They need respect and love. They need to be able to trust your word and to be able to confide in you. So often, we can't care for ourselves in this world, so we need protection and provision.
Tracie Peterson
#62. All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.
Eugene H. Peterson
#63. We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Jane Austen
#64. My hope is, as we start sixth grade, as we get older and wiser, that we all learn to trust each other enough so that we can truly be ourselves, and accept each other for who we really are. Thank you. How I Finally Introduced Myself I
R.J. Palacio
#65. I Know what you meant when you told me she was full of love and brimming over with it. And so innocent that one fears for her. Perhaps we ought not to fear for such people but for ourselves whose experience has taught us not to trust one another or life itself.
Mary Balogh
#66. When we see ourselves in a relationship of love with God, there is always something of a lover's dilemma, a struggle to give and receive, to trust and obey the call.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#67. Trust me: all of us walk around and look at each other, and without saying it, we all know we're thinking, 'Really dude? Were still here!' and pinch ourselves. Typically, careers have short life span, 10 years if you're lucky, so what we've done is amazing.
Tommy Lee
#68. It is amazing that we cannot allow ourselves to trust the same power that holds galaxies together to also handle our lile lives.
Swami Khecaranatha
#69. I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.
Brooke Shields
#70. But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.
Francis Chan
#71. I'm an actor. Never trust an actor, whatever their energy is. I suppose you guys see that side of me, but I'm sure there's plenty of people close to me who've seen the other one. I think if we're all honest with ourselves, we all know that internal rage.
Hugh Jackman
#72. As we get older and wiser, that we all learn to trust each other enough so that we can truly be ourselves, and accept each other for who we really are.
R.J. Palacio
#73. True happiness comes from within. When we stop looking for social proof and trust in ourselves, a certain magic happens. You are the most important person in your life, and, we are one.
Tony Williams
#74. Of course we should use all our powers, of mind and will and imagination, but not trust in them, for that is trusting in ourselves.
Peter Kreeft
#75. We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
Oscar Wilde
#76. We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers.
Philip Neri
#77. Let us trust in Him who has placed this burden upon us. What we ourselves cannot bear let us bear with the help of Christ. For He is all-powerful, and He tells us: 'My yoke is easy, and my burden light.'
Saint Boniface
#78. By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#79. We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do not know-we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can trust in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life, and all of history.
George W. Bush
#80. Letting ourselves be loved by God is the place where we stumble upon trust.
Paula Rinehart
#81. I have insisted that we must be tolerant. But I also believe that this tolerance has its limits. We must not trust those anti-humanitarian religions which not only preach destruction but act accordingly. For if we tolerate them, then we become ourselves responsible for for their deeds.
Karl Popper
#82. It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#83. Trust in Him When we trust in ourselves, it leads to strife and shows that we don't trust God to do what He says in His Word - be with us, deliver us, and honor us. When we trust God, however, it leads to the reward of peace - peace within ourselves, peace with God, and peace with others.
Joyce Meyer
#84. Heavy burden is laid on our hearts, so we do not trust in ourselves. But in God gives grace for endurance.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#85. But I trust in my faith that we are descendants of rectitude. That each of us, no matter how bad we may think ourselves to be, the core lining of us is threaded in holy fibers.
E.K. Blair
#86. God calls women to run - to trust him and invest ourselves in the race he has marked out - to participate, contribute and fight for what is right.
Carolyn Custis James
#87. No one has to be taught to trust in themselves. No one has to be taught that what you experience inside yourself is more authoritative than what comes to you externally, even if it comes from God. Since the Fall, it has been part of our character to look within ourselves.
Michael Horton
#88. We entertain ourselves with worry when we don't know what to trust. When you trust in what remains beyond temporary form, you are trusting in all that you are, as all that is.
Matthew Kahn
#89. And if we ground ourselves in the reality that we trust God, we can face circumstances that are out of our control without acting out of control. We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God. We can do that.
Lysa TerKeurst
#90. Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.
Aaron B. Powell
#91. It's hard to trust our own decisions, but we have no options. We have to do that in order to be all right with ourselves.
Art Hochberg
#92. When we can trust that it's we who think, feel, and act rather than the ghosts of our parents or well-trained robots, we learn that we can also love, be in relationships, and be in the world without losing ourselves.
Bud Harris
#93. That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.
Ravi Zacharias
#94. In a busy world, even as information is moving so rapidly, we have to learn who to trust in that regard even as we ourselves have to become more critical of the people who we want to trust. It's a weird situation.
Alex Gibney
#95. What a miracle that God would take sinners such as ourselves and give us new hearts with a disposition to love him and trust him in the midst of our circumstances.
Gloria Furman
#96. Our thinking about who we are as Christians should not begin with what we can discover about ourselves by self-analysis. Rather, it begins with what God says about those who trust in Christ.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#97. Our natural state is trust
in ourselves
in others
until we learn differently
then we hurt as we try to unlearn it
until it dawns on our hearts that if we live and act with pure intent
we do not need trust.
Cathrine Lodoen
#98. Ordinary points of bravery, the synchronistic moments we all engage in, and the transformative power of minding our voices, forgiving, trusting, and learning to love ourselves and our lives, while we wait.
Andrea T. Goeglein
#99. For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that would be enough to prove it undivine; and that which is but one step beyond our understanding must be in some of its relations as mysterious as if it were a hundred.
George MacDonald
#100. The things that challenge our trust in God also, challenge our confidence within ourselves.
Ellen J. Barrier
