Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

Source: Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care (1945) by Benjamin McLane Spock. Note: First sentence. This is printed beneath the heading “Trust Yourself” , and thus is often quoted as “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ”

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else’s. – Billy Wilder.

Source: Billy Wilder, quoted in: John Mason (2000), Know Your Limits-Then Ignore Them, page 76.

Trust takes a long time to develop but can be destroyed in seconds.

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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Source: Essays: First Series (1841) by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Prudence.

Trust is not who you think someone is but who you observe them to be in different scenarios over and over again consistently. When trust is betrayed, it is our assumption or perception of who that person is what is inaccurate. The other person is always being true to their nature, whether we are aware of their true nature or not.

Trust is like a paper, once it’s crumpled it can’t be perfect again.

Trust is a precious thing on interesting thing. Easily lost and forever being earned. Take care not to forgot it’s a slippery slope. That thing called trust.