When You Trust Yourself, Then You Will Know How to Live

12 quotes on why you should trust yourself and how to do it.

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

— Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe

Photo by the author and courtesy of Chuck Black Photography

The quote above is so true and yet not easy to apply to your life. Why? Because you find it hard to trust yourself. How do you do that? How do you find the faith to believe in yourself to live the life that is right for you?

Fortunately, many great thinkers have given us their advice on how to solve this mystery. So let’s take a look at how you can learn to trust yourself and live your best life, true to yourself.

The First Secret

“Self-trust is the first secret of success,” is the first piece of advice from the American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. Only once you trust yourself can you achieve success. Before that, you are chasing other people’s ideas of success that they handed down to you. But those ideas are not your own. You can never be your own success while you are pursuing someone else’s goal. So the first secret to success is to trust yourself enough to pursue your own goals.

“Self-trust is the first secret…