120 Credibility Quotes
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Famous Credibility Quotes
Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt. — John C. Maxwell
Accuracy builds credibility. — Jim Rohn
The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you. — Rick Warren
Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality. — Bob Hawke
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful. — Edward R. Murrow
Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered. — Charley Reese
I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility. — Eliot Spitzer
In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want. — Brit Hume
Reliability is the precondition for trust. — Wolfgang Schauble
For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap. — Richard Cobden
Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility. — Gerry Spence
Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping. — Max De Pree
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. — George Jean Nathan
Confidence is the public face of competence. — Ron Suskind
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness . — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Short Credibility Quotes
- 95% of millennials say their friends are the most credible source of product information. — Jay Baer
- Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured. — John P. Kotter
- The dog that barks doesn't bite. — French Proverbs
- Never consult a doctor who has never been ill himself — Greek Proverbs
- An ounce of proof is worth a ton of assertions. — American Proverbs
- Before taking advice, make sure they already have what you want. — Alex Hormozi
- I know you've got to earn people's trust, and you've got to earn it day after day after day. — Nicola Sturgeon
- I do think the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility. — Vince McMahon
- It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system. — Sheikh Hasina
- All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Trust And Credibility Quotes
Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it. — Rick Warren
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust. — Warren G. Bennis
The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself. — Stephen Covey
Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust. — Judith M Bardwick
Being right doesn’t mean you win. You win by establishing credibility, a relationship, and trust. — David Brock
I think that one of the things that Christianity really needs, and the church really needs, is credibility. People need to be able to trust us and they need to believe we really want to help them and that it's not just, I'm-doing-this-for-me type thing. — Joyce Meyer
Newcomers should be put in an established position where the expectations are known and help is available. New major assignments should mainly go to people whose behaviors and habits are well known and who have already earned trust and credibility. — Edward Hallowell
We must reflect a holistic view of the leader, in three dimensions, character, substance and style. Character consists of the qualities that win trust whereas substance consists of the qualities that earn us credibility; style is the dimension of execution - getting others to get things done. — Suzanne Bates
If you set up an atmosphere of community and trust, it becomes a tradition. Older team members will establish your credibility with newer ones. Even if they don't like everything about you, they'll say, 'He's trustworthy, committed to us as a team.' — Mike Krzyzewski
People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business. — Lori Greiner
Losing Credibility Quotes
You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject. — Nancy Pelosi
It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had. — Salman Rushdie
If the Resurrection had not occurred, why would the apostle Paul give such a list of supposed eyewitnesses? He would immediately lose all credibility with his Corinthian readers by lying so blatantly. — Norman Geisler
When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country. — Ralph Nader
Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose? — Lesley Garrett
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility. — Jesse Jackson
Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility. — David Jeremiah
If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled. — John Brady
If I don't win, the award show loses credibility. — Kanye West
Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that. — Annie Leonard
No Credibility Quotes
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens. — Judith Lewis Herman
In Washington, no one believes anything unless it comes from 'The New Yorker,' 'New York Times' editorial page, or 'The Washington Post.' — Tucker Carlson
The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression. — Leopoldo Lopez
When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible. — S. E. Cupp
You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there. — Roger Stone
There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority. — Pratibha Patil
We have had no specific or credible threats, but we don't take that as any kind of comfort. We know we need to be ready and we know that, that vigilance is the price of freedom. — Greg Nickels
For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America. — George W. Bush
No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children. — Irving Greenberg
When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to preclude a hoax, one can do no less than hear them out, in all seriousness. — J. Allen Hynek
Credence Quotes
They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence. — William Faulkner
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory. — Andre Breton
If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand. — Alan Cohen
When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence and that he places greater credence in his independent reasoning than in God's Word. — Greg L. Bahnsen
Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely. — Friedrich Nietzsche
While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies. — Paul Claudel
Stop paying or buying into the ideas that don't resonate with the reality you prefer. Stop giving them credence. Appreciate, Appreciate your chosen vibration and allow the vibrations that are not aligned with you to de-preciate. — Darryl Anka
Be careful not to give too much credence to the old adage that time heals. Mark my word. It's God that heals. Time only tells. — Beth Moore
Ultimately our claim to know the one God only gains credence in the contemporary world as he demonstrates the divine presence through the way we live- through our lives as we connect our Christian belief with true Christian living. — Stanley J. Grenz
The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence. — Carl Van Vechten
Credulity Quotes
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. — Malcolm Muggeridge
All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties. — Mikhail Bakunin
If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense. — Lyall Watson
The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love. — Alexander Pope
The pendulum of investment psychology is constantly fluctuating between optimism and pessimism, between greed and fear, between credulousness and skepticism, between risk tolerance and risk aversion. — Howard Marks
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. — John Arbuthnot
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. — Eric Hoffer
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity. — George Bernard Shaw
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. — Walt Whitman
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave. — Frances Wright
People Writing About Credibility
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 John C. Maxwell |
1073 | 7437 |
 Jim Rohn |
802 | 20336 |
 Rick Warren |
708 | 5964 |
 Bob Hawke |
58 | 266 |
 Edward R. Murrow |
79 | 2180 |
 Charley Reese |
44 | 406 |
More Credibility Quotes
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that. — Edward R. Murrow
A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness finds authority by being under authority finds direction by laying down his plans finds vision by seeing the needs of others finds credibility by being an example finds loyalty by expressing compassion finds honor by being faithful finds greatness by being a servant — Roy Lessin
Good communication is not just data transfer. You need to show people something that addresses their anxieties, that accepts their anger, that is credible in a very gut-level sense, and that evokes faith in the vision. — John P. Kotter
Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave. — Barbara Jordan
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the scriptures, and next, credible histories, especially of the Church... but take heed of false teachers who would corrupt your understandings. — Richard Baxter
It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don't think they're intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further. — James David Vance
People don't really believe in words. Or rather, people believe in words only for a stretch of time. Then they start to look for action. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic. — Peter Hain
We will stay firmly rooted in Chinese culture, and we will better tell China stories. Make China's voice heard, and present a China that is credible, appealing and respectable, and we will better show the world China's culture. — Xi Jinping
Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers. — Giorgio Armani
Referrals aren't given easily. If you don't take the time to establish credibility, you're not going to get the referral. People have to get to know you. They have to feel comfortable with who you are and what you do. — Ivan Misner
Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York! — Spiro T. Agnew
Lo que fue, independientemente, es un escándalo institucional. Si es mentira, también es un escándalo institucional. Frente a la gravedad, desde el primer momento, y teniendo en cuenta la escasa credibilidad que tiene el kirchnerismo preferí guardar silencio y me expresé en la Cámara: 'Dejen tranquila a la Justicia, es un tema demasiado delicado para estar contaminándolo en el chiquero de las operaciones. — Javier Milei
An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers. — Jon Niccum
Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality...which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man? — Michael Denton
The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. They are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers. — Johann Hari
Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people — Ron Holland
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the keepers of religion may themselves become one of the greatest dangers to the credibility - and the morality - of the church itself. — Joan D. Chittister
Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start. — John C. Maxwell
Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having a credible policy but we are now without integrity. We have given our opponents the irrefutable, undeniable evidence that we cannot be trusted. — Malcolm Turnbull
Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful. — Shane Claiborne
In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets. — P. D. James
Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility. — Chuck Hagel
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