10 Quotes Tagged: self-trust

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

We need to unlearn our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. It's worth taking time to demistify it. [...] All the things an adolescent can be [...] are reduced to a three digit number. [...] We too can decide how to value our education instead of letting them value us.

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.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

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.

Take no one’s word for anything, including mine - but trust your experience.