Quotes About Credibility

As Morgenthau points out, small- and medium-sized states like Israel, Great Britain, France, and Iran cannot absorb the same level of punishment as continental-sized states such as the United States, Russia, and China, so that they lack the requisite credibility in their nuclear threats.

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

Nobody ever saw anybody who had seen anybody who had heard of anybody that had ever seen anybody that had ever seen one of the original Hebrew manuscripts.

No matter how many famous people were convicted of rape or murder, still the belief persisted, almost pagan in its intensity: not him. It couldn't be him. He's famous.

and supply-chain experts, and get more space. Corey also knew that little things can mean a lot, and as a boss, you can earn credibility with your people by demonstrating that you will go to war for them every now and then—even over fairly trivial things.

A STORY must obey its own internal laws of probability.

Be sure you choose what you believe and know why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very credible one, will choose you.

it could take 30 years to build your reputation and yet it can be lost in 30 seconds.

The best, in any endeavor, appreciate the fact that your good name is branded onto every piece of work that you release. And they get that you can't put a price tag on people saying superb things about you.

It's never been so important to be trustworthy. It's never been so important to be someone others respect. It's never been so important to keep the promises you make to your teammates and customers. And it's never been so essential to be authentic.

Saying things we don't really mean becomes a habit when we practice it long enough. The real problem is that when you don't keep your word, you lose credibility. When you lose credibility, you break the bonds of trust. And breaking the bonds of trust ultimately leads to a string of broken relationships. To

Personal relationships start unraveling, business partnerships begin to fall apart and your credibility decreases as you become known as "a loose cannon." Effective

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

If a charge was made often enough, people assumed in the end "that a person so often accused cannot be entirely innocent.

The man born without honor placed a premium on maintaining his.

When it suited his convenience, Jefferson set aside his small-government credo with compunction.

He's worth having. All I got was two fake lawsuits." "Seems like Morgan's value just went down, as part of a credible

When we found it you said the number would be either the client, or a source of independent corroboration, or a source of further information.

Garber always tells the truth. So nobody ever believes him.

An equal-opportunity phenomenon, the World Wide Web doesn't discriminate between sober-minded scholars and delusional crackpots, leaving visitors without a reliable filter to determine what's trustworthy and what's not.

From the perspective of a classical historian, German scholar Hans Stier has concurred that agreement over basic data and divergence of details suggest credibility, because fabricated accounts tend to be fully consistent and harmonized. "Every historian," he wrote, "is especially skeptical at that moment when an extraordinary happening is only reported in accounts which are completely free of contradictions.

si una mentira se repetía con la frecuencia suficiente, hasta los que sabían que era una mentira la consideraban pronto como si fuese verdad.

Your amicable words mean nothing if your body seems to be saying something different.    ââ'¬â€JAMES BORG I

You don't have to disprove someone's claim if you can discredit the person saying it.