Top 100 Take Credit Quotes
#1. I never take credit for anything, because it's mostly genetic to my way of thinking. Even the need to work hard with some genetic talent you're given - the need to go out and develop it, and push hard to bring it to people.
George Carlin
#2. We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
Charles Kuralt
#3. 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
#4. I feel a strange, fierce squeeze in my heart when I see him, like pride, although there's nothing about Sean that I can take credit for.
Maggie Stiefvater
#5. No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.
Walt Disney
#6. Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?
Arthur Conan Doyle
#7. I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.
Gary Bauer
#8. We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.
Darren Hardy
#9. I like to take credit for the work that I have done.
Jesse Williams
#10. I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both.
Pearl Jam
#11. My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#12. I should have had more faith in my talent. I think I would have gotten to achieve more, earlier, had I believed in myself. But I let other people take credit for my work.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#13. In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.
Robert Paul Weston
#14. Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.
Josh Kaufman
#15. I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don't want to take credit for starting Apple, for turning the world around or anything like that.
Steve Wozniak
#16. I can't assume responsibility for a man's infidelity, no more than I can take credit for his choice to remain faithful.
Lorraine Maloney Armstrong
#17. Riffing on language will create wonderful effects you never intended. Which leads me to this writing advice: 'Always take credit for good stuff you didn't intend, because you'll be getting plenty of criticism in your career for bad stuff you didn't mean either.'
Roy Peter Clark
#18. A father must take credit for his child, but never a child for his father.
Miguel Syjuco
#19. I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do.
Jessica Lynch
#20. You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.
Morgan Freeman
#21. Even if you believe that every human being harbors an immortal soul, the problem of responsibility remains: I cannot take credit for the fact that I do not have the soul of a psychopath.
Sam Harris
#22. Our hesitancy to take credit for our accomplishments results in a loss of power, influence, and political capital in the workplace.
Bonnie Marcus
#23. I smoke and drink and have abortions, actually one abortion, but still, I have an A average that I maintain with little or no effort on my part and they despise me for it, mostly because they can't take credit for it.
Lisa O'Donnell
#24. Careful you'll end up in my novel."
(Love this quote--wish I could take credit for it.)
Cynthia Kumanchik
#25. General personal principle: You are generally successful to the degree others want you to succeed. So get adopted! And, even more importantly, it's amazing how much you can get done when you let other people take credit for it.
John Daly
#26. People keep saying, "God is in the details". He isn't in ours, unless his yokel creationist fans wish to take credit for his clumsiness, failure, and incompetence.
Christopher Hitchens
#27. Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.
Denise Richards
#28. It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.
James Sinegal
#29. My voice belongs to me, from God. People will comment, "Your voice helped me through." Maybe it's God in me, because I don't take credit for that.
Aaron Neville
#30. You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.
Madeleine L'Engle
#31. There are 300,000 new jobs and Bush said he's confused, 'Can I take credit for good news that I didn't even make up?'
Craig Kilborn
#32. When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.
Nick Hanauer
#33. There are a lot of producers and people in the music industry who take credit for the work of others when it's not actually their work. Especially big producers - they have a song that's written by one guy with a produced mix by someone else and then it's sung by someone else.
Howard Lawrence
#34. To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.
W.S. Merwin
#35. For many years, I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.
Margaret Keane
#36. I don't ever take credit for discovering anybody, except for McLovin on 'Superbad'.
Allison Jones
#37. I have many regrets, many bad things I must take credit for, but believe me when I say that the negative impact that all of my actions have had on your life is my biggest one.
R.K. Lilley
#38. One thing I can take credit for, along with the rest of show business, is when the red ribbons were out, we cured AIDS. Any advancements that came towards fighting AIDS were not done by scientists or doctors - it was people with little ribbons on their lapels.
Gilbert Gottfried
#39. Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed!
Rick Riordan
#40. He shrugged, working to make her understand. There's whole YouTube montages playing still shots of my butt to music. I don't take credit for it. My mom's been paying a trainer for years. Oh, and my six-pack won a Fan's Choice Award called the SixPackAttack. Three years running.
Anne Eliot
#41. Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
Ray Bradbury
#42. I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.
Eddie Vedder
#43. 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
#44. That's why I hate to take credit for the songs I've written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it's been done and I'm just a courier bringing it out into the world.
Michael Jackson
#45. Well," Nicholas said seriously, "I think that all good gifts come ultimately from God. It wouldn't do for the messenger to take credit for his master's work.
Glenn Beck
#46. My voice is definitely a big present for me from God, because it's not like I can even take credit for it.
Macy Gray
#47. Do you take credit cards? I bet your pony would be worth a ride.
Cari Quinn
#48. There's a huge difference for taking responsibility for one's actions, and taking credit, and in this scenario I think we need to give credit where credit is due. I won't take responsibility for my teacher's drinking problem, but I will take credit for it.
Benjamin Tomes
#49. You can accomplish anything," she once told me, "as long as you are willing to let others take credit for it.
Alberto Villoldo
#50. There are some styles I do not want to take credit for and usually these hairstyles are on the heads of customers who are only too happy to spread the word.
Marlin Bressi
#51. One of the most enduring lessons I learned in my youth: Activists do not save the masses. The masses save themselves. Activists, like politicians, are just there to take credit for it.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#52. There's two kinds of people in the world, those that do work and those who take credit. Keep in the first group - there's much less competition there.
Donald C. Gause
#53. There are mornings on this road trip as the early light gathers itself, something quite unexpected happens. My camera pushes me aside and takes on a life of it's own, conspiring with nature and becoming a veritable paintbrush. I'd like to take credit for the end result, but I know it would be a lie.
Stephen Braxton Thompson
#54. Adam said, I bet you couldn't sleep if you stayed in bed. You know what I bet? I bet you get up because you want to, and then you take credit for it - like taking credit for six fingers.
John Steinbeck
#55. Understanding that you can't truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate.
Empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on, intellectually.
Tim Minchin
#56. I hate how white people always try to take credit for something after they discover it. Like it wasn't happening before they found out about it
which most times is always late, and they didn't have nothing to do with it happening.
Miles Davis
#57. I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice.
Neal Shusterman
#58. Do you know my biggest regret?" She asks. "That you turned into this bright, beautiful, fascinating person ... and I can't take credit for any of it.
Stephanie Perkins
#59. Modern literature is a north-east wind
a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it so. The way to produce fine fruit is to blight the flower. You call this a paradox. Marry, so be it.
Thomas Love Peacock
#60. Today, it felt like time should be measured by how much of the future she had left, and needed to be counted forward. She felt proud listening, as if somehow Jonathan Parish's speech reflected on her, as if she could take credit for some part of it, for him.
Michael Stein
#61. There will be plenty of blame to go around but if you take credit for the sunshine, you also get blamed for the rain.
Tom Rath
#62. Be mindful of those who take credit for your success or blame you for their failures.
Russell Eric Dobda
#63. No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?
Red Grange
#64. And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#65. No matter the evidence of your life, or who you believe you are, or what you're willing to take credit for or draw your vital strength and pride from
anything at all can follow anything at all.
Richard Ford
#66. The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.
Thomas Sowell
#67. I love dressing up. I have people helping me with it. I am not going to take credit for that. I have a stylist, make-up and hair stylist.
Sonam Kapoor
#68. You can't take credit for your talents, but it matters that you use them. You can't really be blamed for your weaknesses, but it matters that you correct them. So pride and shame don't make a lot of sense, in the final analysis, but they weren't much fun anyway.
Sam Harris
#69. I have nice muscle tone in my arms. I can't really take credit for it, though - all the members of my family do. A lot of arm wrestling happened in our family growing up!
Michelle Monaghan
#70. So, your dad's hot."
"Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.
Ally Carter
#71. I wasn't a complete bastard. If she liked to think she saw good in me, if she wanted to take credit for it, I'd let her. She deserved that much.
Nenia Campbell
#72. I've always been lucky in casting. The trick in casting is to hire great people, and let them do what they do, don't interfere with them too much. And then when they're great, take credit for it in the end.
Woody Allen
#73. Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.
Stephen King
#74. [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 Shirky
#76. Fairness of face is a gift or curse from God. You cannot take credit for it. Your nature, intelligence, and behavior are the true measure of beauty.
Katy Madison
#77. We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.
Chris Prentiss
#78. A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.
Simon Sinek
#79. No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.
Ron Brackin
#80. What matters most is for the school, the district, and the state to be able to say that more students have reached "proficiency." This sort of fraud ignores the students' interests while promoting the interests of adults who take credit for nonexistent improvements.
Diane Ravitch
#81. The wise person acts but does not take credit. Leads, but does not rule.
Lao-Tzu
#82. 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
#83. No, pos, de nada," the Mexican said with the typical humility that has always bewildered my American need to take credit.
Erasmo Guerra
#84. Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#85. don't go blaming yourself for your son's mistakes. You can't blame yourself for their mistakes any more than you can take credit for the right ones they make.
J.L. Whitehead
#86. Take credit, but it's all you. On a balmy afternoon
Sue Monk Kidd
#87. We don't take credit for our accomplishments. I can't tell you how many times you'll say to a woman, 'Oh God, what you did was so great', and they say, 'Really? I didn't think it was that good.'
Dee Dee Myers
#88. 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
#89. If I looked good in 'Wolf of Wall Street,' I cannot take full credit; it was because of the hair extensions and makeup.
Margot Robbie
#90. There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
Adam Gopnik
#91. Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that.
Taylor Swift
#92. If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union.
Michael Moore
#93. We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.
George S. Patton
#94. Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility
both credit and blame
for everything. The more we wantto be good parents, the more we tend to see ourselves as making or breaking our children.
Polly Berrien Berends
#95. Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.
Rick Baker
#96. When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.
Henry Taylor
#97. You know something is important when you're willing to let someone else take the credit if that's what it takes to get it done.
Seth
#98. It's amazing how much credit you can take, if you don't care about accomplishing anything.
M. Stanton Evans
#99. You know he will take the credit for your good ideas, and you the blame for his bad ones? When fortune turns against you, you will feel her lash: you always, he never.
One day, when you are still adjusting your harness, you will look up and see him thundering downhill.
pg. 495
Hilary Mantel
#100. 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
