Belief in Others Quotes

People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack of confidence with mediocrity. But if you believe in them and expect them to do well, they will go the extra mile trying to do their best.

Over the years I have found one of my best strengths is my ability to recognise talent and trust them.

You have to trust or you're only living half a life.

If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?

It's one thing to be supported in your career and another thing for your peers to embrace you and say, 'We believe in you.'

I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.

He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

Those who trust us educate us.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

Trust...trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself.

I'm certainly not an expert and I imagine I'll spend my life figuring it out. What I do know, is that you can't take it all on yourself: find amazing people to collaborate with, build a team, and support other people doing the same. When you share your goals and ambitions with other people and they share with you, you exist in an energizing cycle of always creating new things with people that believe in you.

Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.

The only one," he murmured. His chin dipped a little bit. "You know that, Dru? You're the only person who's ever believed in me. You know what that'll do to a guy?" What?"I-" "It makes him want to live up to it.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

I'm not sure what you need first - the players believing or others believing in them - but in the end, both have to think it.

No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.

Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.

If you want to learn anything, learn trust - nothing else id needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help - learn trust. If you don't feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help - learn trust. Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

What happened to me should teach everybody that you should never give up on anybody.

I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Later on, towards the end of their lives, I thanked her. I said, "Mom, you were really tough." She said, "I wasn't tough! I always believed in you."