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Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable. -- Loretta Young
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
I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done. -- Booker T. Washington
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
Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, "I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help?" We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise. -- Gary Chapman
Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It's so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator. Always remember there is a human being on the other end of every exchange and behind every cultural artifact being critiqued. To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them. -- Maria Popova
I have to admit that Christina is good?though I don't like giving credit to Candor smart-mouths?and so is Peter?though I don't like giving credit to future psychopaths. -- Veronica Roth
I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit. -- Ben Bradlee
Credit you give yourself is not worth having. -- Irving Thalberg
I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing. -- Little Richard
People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe. -- Karl Gutzkow
I credit God with giving me the idea for 'Top 40.' -- Casey Kasem
Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit. -- Jonathan Evison
People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being. -- Ruben Blades
Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for. -- Mariella Frostrup
There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for. -- Donald Judd
When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said. -- Shel Silverstein
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. -- Thomas Jefferson
I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for. -- Eric Shanteau
Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest. -- Charles Churchill
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation. -- Philip Massinger
People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit. -- Jessica Hahn
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. -- Peter Ustinov
We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat. -- Tracy Austin
We can recognize and give credit where credit is due, to the debt of taste we owe Europe, but we have taste, too. -- Billy Baldwin
Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit. -- Michael Jackson
Giving up pride means giving all credit and glory to Guru and Krishna. -- Radhanath Swami
I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading. -- Nicole Jordan
In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly. -- Robert Paul Weston
First click attribution is akin to giving my first girlfriend 100% of the credit for me marrying my wife. -- Avinash Kaushik
You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit. -- Marian Wright Edelman
This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are. -- Philip Davies
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue. -- Laozi
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
The Limbaugh Theorem was not about me giving me credit for something. It was simply sharing with you when the light went off. -- Rush Limbaugh
The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live. -- Beth Moore
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
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

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