Every month inside our MerryBody community, we explore a new theme, something meaningful to reflect on, move with and meditate on. It’s this theme that inspires the classes we create inside the MerryBody App, infusing intention into every breath and movement.
This month (August 2025), our focus is Trust.
Trust in yourself.
Trust in your path.
Trust in the timing of it all.
Keep reading and you’ll discover 26 powerful quotes to help you soften into trust again, whether it’s trust in your body, your intuition or life itself.
Always merrymaking,
Emma + Carla
26 Quotes about Trust
Sometimes, all it takes is a few simple words to shift your perspective, ease your heart and remind you that you’re not alone. As you read through these quotes, let them be little anchors of support… gentle nudges to keep going, to soften your grip and to trust that you will make it through whatever life is throwing your way. Let them remind you: you’ve got this.
“Trust is the first step to love.” — Munshi Premchand
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” — William Shakespeare
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” — Albert Einstein
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.” — Billy Wilder
“Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.” — James Broughton
“A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly.” — Charles Kingsley
“Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.” — Claudia Black
“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” — Stephen R. Covey
“Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” — Isaac Watts
“Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.” — Eubie Blake
“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.” — Samuel Johnson
“Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.” — Robert Baden-Powell
“It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.” — Graham Greene
“Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.” — Maria V. Snyder
“Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.” — George MacDonald
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.” — Golda Meir
“Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.” — Santosh Kalwar
“Trust should be earned inherently, without any verbal demands.” — Anne Elisabeth Stengl
“Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” — Ernest Hemingway
“It isn’t as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out.” — Gordon B. Hinckley
“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward.” — Paulo Coelho
“Consistently delivering on your promise value reinforces trust.” — Bernard Kelvin Clive
“Trust is not an obsession, it’s an extension of love.” — Julie Lessman
“Trust yourself, you will start to trust others.” — Santosh Kalwar
“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder