Credit Quotes - Page 2

• In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

  Francis Darwin

  Business, Science, Men

  Eugenics Review, Apr. 1914

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• God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Men, Self

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Courage, Badass

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Weakness, Done

  Said about Charles Evans Hughes in November 1909. "Taft and Roosevelt: The intimate letters of Archie Butt" by Archibald Willingham Butt, p. 224, 1930.

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• No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

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• Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  'Martin Chuzzlewit' (1844) ch. 5 (Mark Tapley)

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• Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Let Me

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Veterans Day, War, Work

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• A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Feelings, Doe, Leopards

  "More Women Than Men". Book by Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1951.

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• We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

  Epictetus

  Learning, Giving, Philosopher

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, Preserved by Arrian ; The Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.154

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• Money is a poor man's credit card.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Cards, Poverty

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

  Robert Orben

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.108, Doubleday

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• What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

  Tom Wilson

  Country, Funny Things, Experience

  Tom Wilson (1997). “Ziggyisms: Notable Quotes of Wisdom for Everyday Living”, p.86, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

  Karl Gutzkow

  Believe, People, Giving

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• I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race and the motion picture industry.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Race, Motion Pictures, Sincerely

  "Oscar's First Black Winner Accepted Her Honor in a Segregated 'No Blacks' Hotel in L.A." by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 19, 2015.

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• Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

  Merle Travis

  Mother, Deserve More, Coal Miners

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• Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Faith, Men, Together

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “The Orations”, p.138

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• Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

  Melissa Bean

  Data, Numbers, Hands

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• But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

  Josiah Stamp

  Bankers, Cost, Banking

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• Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

  Peter Ustinov

  Giving, Age, Critics

  1952 BBC radio broadcast, Feb.

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• I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

  Kathleen Parker

  President, Events, Fans

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• You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Jealousy, Accepting, Harbors

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• I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

  Mel Smith

  Movie, Thinking, London

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• The parents pull you aside and say, `I have to give credit where credit is due, you really are sacrificing a lot for the community, and giving,' .. But I'm from here and committed to Homestead and the Steel Valley, and it's a no-brainer to me.

  Charlie Batch

  Sacrifice, Giving, Community

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• If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Growth, Plant, Ifs

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