A Quote by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.

Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

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Anyone Himself Man Never Never Trust Trusts

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Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
French - Priest
September 29, 1613 - August 24, 1679

A Warrior trusts other people because, first and foremost, he trusts himself.

Paulo Coelho

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

Alphonsus Liguori

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Harold MacMillan

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

Harlow Shapley

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

Robert Jordan

Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

Mahatma Gandhi

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

E. W. Howe

We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human and visible means, nor rests in any visible end. He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.

Thomas Merton

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

Gregory David Roberts

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Harold MacMillan

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.

Periander

Never trust he who trusts everyone.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.