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Distrust: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.— BOVEE — Summaries of Thought.

Self-Reliance. What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?— GEORGE ELIOT — Middlemarch. Bk. V. Ch. XLIV.

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.— MADAME NECKER

Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.— SOUTHEY — Madac in Azthan. Pt. XXIII. L. 51.

Usurpator diffida Di tutti sempre. A usurper always distrusts the whole world.— ALFIERI — Polinice. III. 2.