119 Giving Credit Quotes
Following is our list of giving credit quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about giving yourself credit.
Quick Jump To
Famous Giving Credit Quotes
Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable. — Loretta Young
Give credit where credit is due: simply said, if you want loyalty and best effort, you must be thoughtful. — Estee Lauder
Credit you give yourself is not worth having. — Irving Thalberg
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you. — Brian Tracy
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
The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received. — Lao Tzu
If we blame others for our failures, then we should also give others credit for our successes. — American Proverbs
It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it. — Estelle Parsons
A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit. — John Wooden
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. — Dwight Morrow
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. — Dwight Whitney Morrow
The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator. — Bob Kane
Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit — Dorothy Height
Credit is probably more acceptable in American culture than elsewhere. — John W. Henry
Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit. — Mark Twain
Short Giving Credit Quotes
- Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
- The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. — Pierre Corneille
- The envious never give praise, they only take it in. — Mexican Proverbs
- The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. — Benjamin Jowett
- Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. — Eldridge Cleaver
- There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. — Ronald Reagan
- You can tell the character of every man when you see how he gives and receives praise. — Seneca The Elder
- To give requires good sense. — Ovid
- Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward. — Denzel Washington
- Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. — Jeanne Gang
Top 10 Giving Credit Quotes
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. — Honore de Balzac
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live. — Jesse Jackson
America takes credit for giving you freedom that you had anyway. It's like going to a wedding and putting your tag on somebody elses box. — Doug Stanhope
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after. — Joyce Brothers
New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed. — J. D. Hayworth
Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying. — Nannie Helen Burroughs
There are so many people that have helped me along the way! The person I have to give most credit for would be my wife. — Micky Watkins
I'm a little more goofy than I think people give me credit for. I like to have fun. I like to have a good time. People don't always get to see that. — J. J. Watt
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit. — Charles Krauthammer
Giving Credit Image Quotes
Not Giving Credit Quotes
Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to "play fair" in games, to respect each other's property and rights, to give credit to others, and not to take too much credit to themselves. — Emily Post
You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands. — James Madison
Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit. — Jeb Bush
You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging. — Frank McCourt
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
The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to give credit. Part of being successful is to give credit to people who you may not disagree with when they do well. — Frank Luntz
If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with — Ayn Rand
I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend to think you just dictate your stories into a tape recorder. And I'm not necessarily insulted by that, because I think that just means that it looks easy. — David Sedaris
I've always felt that people's ears are wider than programmers are ever wiling to give them credit for. It's always been very important to me that you not have to turn me off because your kids are in the back seat. — Donnie Simpson
A bad boyfriend is someone you give everything to - you live with him, cook for him, sleep with him - thinking he is going to marry you and then he doesn't. When you are giving your all to a job and not getting credit, your job is a bad boyfriend. — Mika Brzezinski
Giving Yourself Credit Quotes
Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it. — Irving Thalberg
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
Give yourself some credit for the work you put in with your own two hands. But remember to never forget the people and things that have helped you along the way. — John O'Callaghan
It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works. — David D. Burns
You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time. — Suzanne Farrell
You're right to want to minimize your compulsive physical behavior in the workplace before it bothers your co-workers, but I hope very much you can also give yourself credit for the work you're already doing. — Mallory Ortberg
Credit default swap gives you something to do. You can buy some credit default swaps from them to protect yourself against the bankruptcy of people who owe you money. — Robert F. Engle
When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give. — Henry Taylor
Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for." — Robert H. Schuller
How To Credit Quotes
I found myself without money, without credit, without army, without experience and knowledge of my own and finally, also without any counsel because each one of them at first wanted to wait and see how things would develop. — Maria Theresa
A lot of times when you keep it real with somebody, you can't expect them to keep it real with you. In this industry people just want to be famous and they forget how to keep it real and they forget to give credit to the people who helped them get to where they at. — Gucci Mane
A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided. — Ruben Hinojosa
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. — Kurt Vonnegut
You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made? — Walter Murch
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity! — Michel de Montaigne
Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. — Bill Gates
Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you reach a certain point that that you can't do that anymore... There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred? — Ray Dalio
I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Taking Credit Quotes
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. — Indira Gandhi
Learn to go first. Introduce yourself. Ask them out. Host the event. Voice an idea. Tell people what you want. You’ll face more rejections when things go wrong, but you’ll get all of the credit when things go right. The world rewards those who go first because so few people do. — Mark Manson
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. — Marie Stopes
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. — Marie Carmichael Stopes
Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back. — Josiah Stamp
We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the people of other worlds. — Hermann Oberth
Take a moment to think about your answer to this question: Am I prepared to have great success and not get any credit for it? — Tony Dungy
I've seen news organizations outright just take photos from Instagram and use it for news without credit, without permission. — Tim Pool
Having a financial adviser enables the investor to carry a psychological call option. If the investment decision turns out well, the investor takes the credit, and if it turns out badly, the regret can be lowered by blaming the adviser. — Hersh Shefrin
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. — Arnold Glasgow
People Writing About Giving Credit
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Loretta Young |
68 | 625 |
 Estee Lauder |
54 | 202 |
 Irving Thalberg |
11 | 126 |
 Brian Tracy |
787 | 8444 |
 Anthony of Padua |
23 | 3142 |
 Lao Tzu |
1418 | 11725 |
More Giving Credit Quotes
When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us. — Prince
Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Team members need to feel trusted and valued, and micromanaging communicates the opposite. Founders who are prone to manage every detail of their businesses will ultimately kill themselves as well as lose the support of team members. Learn to delegate key tasks and give credit. — Martin Zwilling
Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918. — Humphrey Bogart
Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have. — Joyce Meyer
I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost like MMA. People don't give it a lot of credit and think it's easy but it's very difficult. For an athlete, you use muscles you really don't use and ballet is something I really respect. — Herschel Walker
Too many of us are not living our dreams, because we are living our fears. Decide to become fearless. Face the thing you fear the most. You're stronger than you give yourself credit for. If you can laugh at it. You can move past it. You have the ability to do more than you have ever hoped, imagined or dreamed. You have GREATNESS within you! — Les Brown
I know that God exists. I know that I have never invented anything. I have been a medium by which these things were given to the culture as fast as the culture could earn them. I give all the credit to God. — Philo
I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know. — Eric Andre
I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film. — Hans Zimmer
Sometimes you have to give credit to the other guy pitching. — Joe Maddon
One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense. — Elizabeth Zimmermann
I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing. — Little Richard
. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole. — Louisa May Alcott
So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated. — Richard Thaler
As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do justice to others. There is plenty for everybody in science, and more than can be consumed in our time. One may get a fair name by suppressing references, but the Jewish maxim is true, 'He who seeks a name loses fame.' — Edward Forbes
The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation. — Steven Spielberg
Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt. — Brander Matthews
I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot more what economist calls systematic risk. — Richard Thaler
If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides. — Cory Doctorow
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for. — Josh Billings
People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit. — Jessica Hahn
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of giving credit quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about giving credit to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of giving credit quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
Embed HTML Link
Copy and paste this HTML code in your webpage