Quotes About Credibility

He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

If the word frankly or sincerely is not uttered in the first ten minutes-or let us speak openly-then you are not in the presence of a genuine businessman, and he will certainly go bankrupt.

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays.

False in one thing, false in everything

Words gain credibility by deed.

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting.

Answer questions truthfully and don't exaggerate your experience. Lies will come back to haunt you.

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

All it takes to become president is money and a certain kind of power. Being president is the first thing I can shoot for, not the highest. It may come to a point where people take rock and roll musicians more seriously than they take politicians. It may eventually turn out that musicians have more credibility.

People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be true.

You can't really take things people say on TV seriously. A lot of times they do it just for conversation.

I will only do something if it has credibility for me, and that includes the films I make, the TV shows I judge and ad-campaigns I sign up for.

You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.

In 2013, when it turned out that the plot of LaBeouf's short film 'HowardCantour.com' (2012) had been purloined from graphic novelist Daniel Clowes's 2007 comic 'Justin M. Damiano', the actor-director responded with a series of tweet apologies that also appeared to be shoplifted.

You can fool the people once, twice, but you can't fool them all the time. You should tell them honestly what you can do for them.

Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past.

I figure it this way - if a woman claims she didn't want me to fudge her, then you already know she's a liar. So what the hell's the point of a trial, y'know?

People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.