Top 100 Take Credit Quotes
#1. 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
#2. We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
Charles Kuralt
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.
Gary Bauer
#12. We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.
Darren Hardy
#13. 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
#14. When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.
Henry Taylor
#15. 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
#16. It's amazing how much credit you can take, if you don't care about accomplishing anything.
M. Stanton Evans
#17. 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
#18. In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.
Robert Paul Weston
#19. Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.
Josh Kaufman
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry's come back.
Mitt Romney
#27. A father must take credit for his child, but never a child for his father.
Miguel Syjuco
#28. You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.
Morgan Freeman
#29. 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
#30. Our hesitancy to take credit for our accomplishments results in a loss of power, influence, and political capital in the workplace.
Bonnie Marcus
#31. If you take the credit, you lose it. If you give away the credit, it comes back multiplied.
Mark Victor Hansen
#32. 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
#33. Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.
Denise Richards
#34. I say God is kind. So many people want to do what I do [comedy] for a living, and so he didn't have to choose me. So I don't take all the credit, but I do know that I love what I do, and I see it as a gift.
Niecy Nash
#35. You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.
Madeleine L'Engle
#36. So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.
Thomas Hobbes
#37. 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
#38. I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It's - but it all goes back to 'Mary Tyler Moore,' 'Golden Girls,' all those - actors love to take the credit. We couldn't do it without the writers.
Betty White
#39. Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve.
Erasmus Darwin
#40. God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
Arthur Erickson
#41. 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
#42. I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.
Bill Watterson
#43. Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.
Wayne Dyer
#44. We take too much credit for our effect on the world, whining about our misery and guilt, what others have done or not done to us.
Bill Holm
#45. There are clearly some policies that need to change, and the reputation of the credit card industry is not high. Reforms need to take place.
Kenneth Chenault
#46. Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed!
Rick Riordan
#47. Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.
Travis Bradberry
#48. 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
#49. And listen to me: what you've done here carries power with it, of a different sort. Don't let Solya take all the credit, and don't be shy of using it.
Naomi Novik
#50. 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
#51. Typical Institute. Turn up in time to take the credit.
Pippa DaCosta
#52. 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
#53. Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.
Brian Tracy
#54. Don't take too much credit for your children - or too much blame!
Debora Spar
#55. My father has a beautiful, beautiful voice. His father was a pastor of a church. He sang in church. My mother sang in a church choir. I can take no credit for my vocal talent, because, both my father, and mother have beautiful, beautiful voices.
Deniece Williams
#56. Celebrities had descended on all the high class hotels, so there wasn't a facial twitch when Sebastian paid with his credit card under a false name. He had the looks to pass for an actor or male model. With her cheeks still flushed, Nicole had the look of a woman he'd planned to take to bed.
Melissa Blue
#57. [On Oscar Wilde:]
If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.
[Life Magazine, June 2, 1927]
Dorothy Parker
#58. 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
#59. I will say that I'm going to take full credit for this. I knew Josh [Hutcherson] was going to be a star. One of the things you do, as a music video director, is spot talent. Th at's one of my things. I don't just do random people.
Joseph M. Kahn
#60. When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.
Paul Ryan
#61. 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
#62. Lead, don't drive. And give credit. Don't blame. If an officer on your team suggested something and it worked well, give them credit. If it doesn't work well, you take the blame because you made the decision.
John Wooden
#63. Aren't you afraid one of them will betray you? Take it all away? (Shahara) I'm sure one will eventually, but that's the least of what keeps me up at night. Trust me, there are a lot worse things in life than loosing a few credits. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#64. 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
#65. If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.
Morrissey
#66. 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
#67. I can't take any credit for people dressing like me, you know?
Solange Knowles
#68. Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.
Kangana Ranaut
#69. Over time, I've come to recognize what others bring to the table, and I've developed a much more team-based approach. There's the saying that there is no end to what one can achieve if one doesn't have to take the credit for what was achieved.
Melanne Verveer
#70. Oh no.' Straight raised his eyes to me, and a slight smile touched the corners of his lips. 'A philosophy of life is more terrible than syphilis and people - you have to give them credit - take every precaution not to become infected. Especially by a philosophy of life.
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
#71. Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing.
George Herbert
#72. No individual should take the blame for a loss, because no individual should get the credit for a victory.
John Wooden
#73. I'm very genetically blessed; I cannot deny it, but I work hard at keeping myself together. Yes, I have nice cheekbones and skinny legs, but I can't take any credit for it.
Elizabeth Banks
#74. I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness.
Gregory Maguire
#75. Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.
P. J. O'Rourke
#76. Let Arin surprise us," Roshar said. "That's how we do things. He comes up with something brilliant and I take the credit.
Marie Rutkoski
#77. If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!
Guy Ritchie
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
Oscar Isaac
#81. Shitty of me to attempt to take the credit, but i couldn't help it. I wanted to be her champion.
Katie McGarry
#82. The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.
Mark Twain
#83. When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything.
Craig Ferguson
#84. Everyone knows that banks take in deposits and lend out money, but they don't always realize that when banks lend, they actually create money. We call that money credit.
Edward E. Baptist
#85. 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
#86. It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.
Dave Donovan
#88. I don't know how much credit I can take for 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' because I only worked on it for three weeks. I re-wrote the pilot, and then my name was on it forever.
Paul Haggis
#89. The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing of pleasure. As with credit card usage. the price tag is hidden at the start, but the physical and emotional debt incurred will take a long time to pay off.
N. T. Wright
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. I'm no pawn," said Glinda. "I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness. Good gracious, dear, all of life is a spell. You know that. But you do have some choice.
Gregory Maguire
#93. No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.
Ron Brackin
#94. 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
#95. The wise person acts but does not take credit. Leads, but does not rule.
Lao-Tzu
#96. You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.
Ronald Reagan
#97. Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#98. 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
#99. Take credit, but it's all you. On a balmy afternoon
Sue Monk Kidd
#100. 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
