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- Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
- Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
- The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Prometheus Bound
- Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.] - Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
- Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock (1903 - )
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