Quotes About Credibility

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

I have never used steroids. Period.

should be seen as a credible peer by clients and prospects, not as a vendor, salesperson, or subordinate.  client

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

four-fifths of the words attributed to me are things I never said, and would not agree with. If your words cannot stand on their own, adding my name won't make them less flimsy

I never said most of the things attributed to me. Always check with the Quote Investigator website before posting, like I did when I was alive.

It's just that I think people should be…well, a bit more honest. We don't like being told half-truths. Or being lied to…People can tell, you know. They know when they're being lied to. Politicians find that out – eventually.

You did not squeeze hands when you lied; it could not be done.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

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.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

Psychopaths personified the old saying: "Sincerity: if you can fake that you've got it made.

When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.

Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.

In any profession, you will be respected if you are good at your job – not because you are good at talking about your beliefs. It may be quite irrational, but the fact is that, if you are recognized as being outstanding on one thing, you will be listened to on all sorts of subjects in no way related to it... and so, if you are going to be really effective [for your cause] in your place of work, you must set out to be the best man at your job.

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

Attaching "produced at Berkeley, Harvard, MIT" to a ridiculous argument immediately makes it cogent to many. That's part of life, but let's not pretend that it's rationality.

There is no such thing as 'invisible' honor or respect.

In the early days of my career, I always wrote with skeptics in mind, trying to make sure they would approve of my work.

Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the church's credibility.