Top 100 Quotes About Credibility
#1. Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.
PZ Myers
#2. They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.
Jermaine Dupri
#3. The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.
Seth Godin
#4. I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.
Helen Thomas
#5. A female war correspondent so popular that she had some credibility in saying she controlled half of her newspaper's circulation approached General Winfield Scott during the Mexican War with information that could help him. He was unwilling to get help from someone in petticoats.
Harold Holzer
#6. Mike Adams' assertion that I grabbed Chelsea's (backside) is both false and defamatory. I think we can all agree that Chelsea is not nearly as hot as Ms. Lewinski. The charges simply lack any indicia of credibility. I demand an apology. And I also demand a cigar.
William J. Clinton
#7. Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
Patrick Leahy
#8. You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
Bradley Whitford
#9. The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.
Malcolm Turnbull
#10. Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female.
Lisa Guerrero
#11. My credibility is zero. My wife claims she can go before any judge at any time and have me committed.
Alan Abel
#12. Even getting a restraining order - a fairly new legal tool - requires acquiring the credibility to convince the courts that some guy is a menace and then getting the cops to enforce it. Restraining orders often don't work anyway.
Rebecca Solnit
#13. I think if there's anything that's important today, it's credibility with the voter, because the voter is tired of being sold a bill of goods.
John Kasich
#14. It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.
Rachel Maddow
#15. I don't think being beautiful takes away from your credibility.
Soledad O'Brien
#16. As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.
John Le Carre
#17. The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.
Terry Bradshaw
#18. Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.
Charley Reese
#19. When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
Jesse Jackson
#20. When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.
Scott Weiland
#21. Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That's all I ever wanted - to be good at what I did.
Cher
#22. I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
Aarti Sequeira
#23. I think the only way we retain credibility with the Arab world is to say, 'When push came to shove, despite the mistakes we made in the past, we are with you in democracy.'
John Fund
#24. Every day, every week without taking decisions is a problem for us, is a very wrong message for the markets and increases the lack of credibility of our economies.
Jose Maria Aznar
#25. Dressing for success may sound intimidating, expensive, and a bit vain; however, keep in mind that your presentation creates credibility.
Michelle Moore
#26. US worse off than before Saddam because US lost credibility.
Joe Biden
#27. How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field ... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.
Tom Stoppard
#28. A lack of emotional engagement in the affair affirms higher credibility.
Pawan Mishra
#29. I recognize that as the guy who lost the election, I'm not in a position to tell everybody else how to win, all right? They're not going to listen, and I don't have the credibility to do that anyway.
Mitt Romney
#30. Good leadership puts the interests of the community as a whole before those of any specific group. Credibility of leadership can only be established through action and not words.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#31. Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.
Gerry Spence
#32. I want my country to be trusted. I don't want anybody running for president telling the unions what they want to hear at the expense of the credibility of the United States.
Brian Williams
#33. It's hard running as an independent. I wouldn't have won the Senate election if I hadn't been governor. I had credibility. The hard part is getting voters to the point where they think it's thinkable and not a waste of time.
Angus King
#34. Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.
Paul Stanley
#36. I think it's much harder for anybody who voted Remain to have credibility amongst the voters who voted to leave in terms of leading the country. It's not impossible, but it's much harder.
Liam Fox
#37. All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. By welcoming a marginalized person whose body is wounded and by welcoming the sinner whose soul is wounded, we put our credibility as Christians on the line. Let us always remember the words of Saint John of the Cross: In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
Pope Francis
#39. The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.
Stephen Coonts
#40. The credibility of the teller is the ultimate test of the truth of a proposition. (102)
Neil Postman
#41. I'm very proud to say that Buddy MacMaster is my uncle. He gives credibility to what I do and I'm glad I can carry that MacMaster name because he has created such a good name.
Natalie MacMaster
#42. I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.
Conrad Black
#43. If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.
Tony La Russa
#44. Apostles receive revelations from God, and consequently they are able to say 'This is what the Spirit is saying to the churches right now.' Making such a statement with credibility carries with it tremendous authority.
C. Wagner
#45. You have to build up a credibility before the support comes to you.
Frank Gehry
#46. President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.
Bill Maher
#47. But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.
Tammy Bruce
#48. There's definitely a whole double standard. I don't understand it. A guy can be sexy and good-looking, and it totally just enhances his credibility as an athlete.
Lolo Jones
#49. Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack.
Desmond Tutu
#50. In truth we re-create our reputation every day. Journalists with thirty years of credibility have washed their careers down the drain with one plagiarized paragraph.
Anonymous
#51. Results matter! They matter to your credibility.
Stephen Covey
#52. It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.
Fred Durst
#53. Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.
Doug Henning
#54. This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.
Jim Jeffords
#55. NCL ... stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing and operating expertise and stronger credibility in the leisure and vacation industry.
Micky Arison
#56. 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
#57. I come across famous people all the time. It's the respect factor I appreciate. They respect me, they respect what I've achieved and the manner I've done it. It's street credibility. They know where I'm coming from, they know my reputation.
Lennox Lewis
#58. Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.
Rickie Lee Jones
#59. The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.
Paul Wellstone
#60. Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
Stephen Covey
#61. Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking.
It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day
to deliver your message with authority.
You should write one.
Seth Godin
Seth Godin
#62. You cannot lie ever, because a lie destroys the credibility of the product, and credibility is more important than anything. Credibility's even more important than clarity.
Frank Luntz
#63. Like every false rumor, it gained credibility while being repeated, and before long it was practically a fact.
John Grisham
#64. Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed.
Lynn Shelton
#65. If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.
Desmond Tutu
#66. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
Vincent Bugliosi
#67. Although it seemed like such a simple thing, for the first time in my life I realized the importance of an introduction. An introduction by a mutual friend buys instant credibility, especially when the mutual friend was universally liked - as
Penny Reid
#68. Back in his Chicago Senate days, when he was seeking greater black credibility, Obama was happy enough to attend the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ.
Tina Brown
#69. Integrity is more than truth and honesty; integrity is an unshackled mind, a happy heart, and a light spirit. Integrity is inner peace with a clear, clean conscience. Integrity is self-respect, honor, and credibility. Integrity is healthy and unfettering, and it is worth defending.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#70. The notion that the intense and unprecedented mixture of ethnic and religious groups in American life was soon to blend into a homogeneous end product has outlived its usefulness, and also its credibility. . . .The point about the melting pot. . . is that it did not happen.
David L. Sills
#71. While passion may induce some people to exaggerate, it may drive others to be all the more meticulous and accurate so as not to compromise the credibility of the message they wish to communicate. As you'll see, we think the authors of the Bible took this meticulous and accurate road.
Norman L. Geisler
#72. Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered.
Ernst Junger
#73. Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.
David Mitchell
#74. For those of us on that Leave side there is a natural credibility with those voters.
Liam Fox
#75. If you want to be taken seriously and gain credibility, you really do have to try and write yourself. I don't want to do an album of covers and stuff.
Amy Nuttall
#76. I'm really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don't care for credibility.
Mark McGrath
#77. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.
Frank Church
#78. Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.
Giorgio Armani
#79. To remove all credibility from what you're saying try wearing sunglasses on your forehead.
Demetri Martin
#80. You could have the best idea in the world, but if people don't like you, don't trust you, or don't know you, they're not going to consider it. However, if you cite what someone else is saying, someone they might have heard of, that lends the idea more credibility.
B.J. Mendelson
#82. 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
#84. Look. Every partisan in every party has to learn one thing: Sometimes your people are wrong. To paraphrase an old retort, saying "My party, right or wrong" is like saying "My Kennedy, drunk or sober." Credibility is earned, and standing up and saying "Fie!" now and then reinforces your truthfulness.
James Lileks
#85. The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?
John Leo
#86. 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
#87. In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.
Brit Hume
#89. Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.
Gary Numan
#90. I realize political credibility is important in this world,but it's more important to be faithful to God.
Theodore Edgar McCarrick
#92. We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.
Anna Lindh
#93. I plan on having the credibility and integrity of being a part of an entertainment news program like 'E!,' in addition to being on the actor side as well.
Terrence J
#94. It's funny; we never had anything like credibility. Even though we all have some sort of punk-rock background, but so what? I really don't care about that. What's credibility anyway? Who has credibility?
Mark McGrath
#96. Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.
John C. Maxwell
#97. We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science
Paul Kurtz
#98. I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility.
Lisa Marie Presley
#99. Be honest. Be truthful. If you tell lies, you lose your credibility.
Timi Nadela
#100. Trust is the foundation and bond of credibility.
Brad Lomenick
