quotes about Credit
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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 -
You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
-- Adam Carolla -
Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
-- Alan Bennett -
We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts
-- Alan Keyes -
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Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They want me to help them fill in the form that will get them instant credit (in eternity). They are impatient for results. They have adopted the lifestyle of a tourist and only want the high points. . . . The Christian life cannot mature under such conditions and in such ways.
-- Albert MohlerSource : Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.140, Baker Books
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Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
-- Aldrich AmesSource : Letter from his cell at the Allenwood Federal Penitentiary to Stephen Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, November 2000; cited on the FAS website. Ames, you see, was not at fault; it was those who trusted him.
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An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.
-- Alex Comfort -
The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.
-- Alex Ferguson -
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CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect of the maxims that uphold public credit, and justify the solicitude manifested by the House on this point, would be an improper intrusion on their time and patience.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
-- Alexander Pope -
The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
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Some of you may remember me as the 'Doritos Girl' from that Super Bowl commercial a while back, but I've been lucky enough to have gotten a few more credits under my belt since then!
-- Ali LandrySource : Source: www.hbook.com
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All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.
-- Allen Lacy -
So, your dad's hot." "Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.
-- Ally Carter -
I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.
-- Althea GibsonSource : Althea Gibson, Richard Curtis (1968). “So Much to Live for”
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You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.
-- Andrew Tobias -
If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.
-- Anna Olson -
You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
-- Anne Carson -
Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
-- Anthony Burgess -
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Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.
-- Anthony of Padua -
One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.
-- Anton Chekhov -
It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
-- Archibald AlexanderSource : Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”
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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
-- Arthur Miller -
Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.
-- Asghar Farhadi -
I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.
-- Ashley Madekwe -
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
-- B. C. Forbes -
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As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough.
-- Barack Obama -
How have you arrived at your thinking? Where do your ideas and knowledge come from, and why do you credit some knowledge and discredit others?
-- Barbara Marciniak -
I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)
-- Barbara Mertz -
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There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.
-- Bellamy YoungSource : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
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Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
-- Ben Affleck -
The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
-- Ben Stein -
If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
-- Benjamin Rush -
Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.
-- Betty White -
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I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.
-- Beverly Sills -
You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.
-- Bill Janklow -
They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
-- Black Francis -
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I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.
-- Blythe MastersSource : "The woman who built financial 'weapon of mass destruction'" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.
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Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.
-- Bob Cousy -
God and God alone deserves all the credit for the good that takes place in our lives.
-- Bob Coy -
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Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.
-- Bow WowSource : "Bow Wow has big love for the big screen:'acting is my number-one priority'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. June 10, 2008.
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Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.
-- Brian Tracy -
I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
-- Camilla Belle -
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how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.
-- Carolyn Wells -
With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who dont necessarily get credit are the curators.
-- Chad Hurley -
There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby.
-- Charlene WeirSource : Charlene Weir (1992). “The Winter Widow”, p.42, Macmillan
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Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
-- Charles ChurchillSource : 'Night' (1761) l. 311
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There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.
-- Charles KrauthammerSource : "Pelosi's Armenian gambit". jewishworldreview.com. October 19, 2007.
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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
-- Charles Kuralt -
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
-- Charles Lyell -
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Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.
-- Charles Marion Russell -
We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace.
-- Cheech MarinSource : "English Only! Part 2" by Cheech Marin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.
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You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.
-- Cheryl StrayedSource : Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd
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I am a millionaire today and my wife deserves all of the credit. Before I met her I was a multi-millionaire.
-- Chi Chi Rodriguez -
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I'd like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just went out there on the field and did his own thing.
-- Chris Davis -
The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.
-- Chris Kyle -
People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.
-- Chris Rock -
I didn't know anything until December 2004 when I went to purchase a vehicle and was told there was a foreclosure on my credit and I wouldn't be able to get the car. I've still got a red flag on my credit.
-- Claude Brown -
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[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.
-- Clay ShirkySource : Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.48, Penguin UK
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Success is not measured by who gets credit. Success is measured by what gets done.
-- Connie Morella -
That is something I'm specifically equipped to discuss - how reputation can affect even your capacity to rent a place. Having good credit is irrelevant in the face of something like getting thrown out of court six years ago. I've really thought this out.
-- Courtney Love -
Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him.
-- Craig Groeschel -
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Don't blame yourself for the declines, because one day you will credit yourself for the increases.
-- Craig Groeschel -
Consumers who are thinking of opening one of these no-limit credit cards may want to think how deeply their scores will be affected.
-- Craig Watts -
Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.
-- Cy Coleman -
Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
-- Damien Hirst -
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If someone saw a movie of your life so far, when the credits rolled, would they say, “Wow, that was awesome?†Or would they scratch their heads and say, “I wonder what that was all about?
-- Dan Miller -
President Obama deserves credit for building what you call the largest coalition to fight terror.
-- Dana PerinoSource : Source: www.foxnews.com
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Don't take too much credit for your children - or too much blame!
-- Debora Spar -
The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit.
-- Deborah Butterfield -
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You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
-- Denis WaitleySource : Twitter post from May 30, 2012
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This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.
-- Dennis Hughes -
The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us credit for loving the unlovable.
-- Denver MooreSource : Ron Hall, Denver Moore (2008). “Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together”, p.132, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Except for Carrie Bradshaws in the opening credits of Sex and the City, I dont know if the tutu has ever really been trendy, but I want to wear one. I want to dance around in it, and I want that to be socially acceptable.
-- Devin Kelley -
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It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.
-- Dianne Feinstein -
If you fellows have been hunted from one end of the country to the other as I have been, you’ll understand what a bad man’s reputation is built on. I’ve had credit for more killings than I ever dreamt of
-- Doc Holliday -
If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.
-- Dorothy Height -
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
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I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.
-- Duff Goldman -
I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
-- Dustin Hoffman -
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
-- Dwight D. EisenhowerSource : "Nineteen Stars: A Study in Military Character and Leadership". Book by Edgar F. Puryear Jr., p. 289, 1971.
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The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.
-- Dwight MorrowSource : Letter to his son, in Harold Nicolson Dwight Morrow (1935) ch. 3
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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?
-- Edward DahlbergSource : Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”
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Wouldn't it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, 'Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub.'
-- Elayne Boosler -
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky -
One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.
-- Elizabeth Zimmermann -
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
-- Ellen Glasgow -