A little less complaint and whining and a little more dogged work and manly striving would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

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.

There are two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group there is less competition there.

You must accept responsibility for your actions but not the credit for your achievements.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

Truth lives in fact for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass so long as nothing challenges them just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

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.

Okay so sometimes in life I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality to say the least and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

God expects from men something more than at such times and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him if he ever reads this. But he was older in the music business - or so he said.

In a world awash in debt power shifts to creditors.

As writers and readers as sinners and citizens our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.