Quotes About Credibility

A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man

No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

Give me an honest con man any day.

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

You have to build up a credibility before the support comes to you.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest. [Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area, Tantum habet et fidei.]

Trust isn't just the greatest currency, it's the only currency. Once trust is gone in any form of currency, the value is gone.

Accuracy builds credibility.