Credit Proverbs


Sayings about Credit

Buying on credit is robbing next year’s crop. ~ American Proverbs

Credit is better than money. ~ Gypsy Proverb

Whoever drinks on credit gets drunk more quickly. ~ Armenian Proverbs

Sweet tongues buy horses on credit. ~ HawaiianProverb

If you want to keep your credit you must use it as little as possible. ~ French Proverb

He who drinks on credit, gets drunk twice. ~ Serbian Proverb

Nothing seems expensive on credit. ~ Czech Proverb

Fair words can buy a horse on credit. ~ Trinidadian Proverb

Don’t be fooled by how clean the turban is, the soap was probably bought on credit. ~ Turkish Proverbs

A pig bought on credit grunts all the year. ~ Spanish Proverbs

Credit is better than wealth. ~ Iranian Proverbs

You must give credit to coincidence. ~ French Proverb

The first will get the credit, even if the second is better.  ~ Arabian Proverb

It is the pot that boils but the dish that gets the credit. ~ Cameroonian Proverb

If the pupil is smart, the teacher gets the credit. ~ Yiddish Proverb

Quotations about Credit

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Credit is a system whereby a person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. ~ Charles Dickens Quotes

The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any. ~ Maurice Switzer

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none. ~ Bishop Robert South

Creditors have better memories than debtors; and creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times. ~ Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. ~ Junius

Public credit is suspicion asleep.~ Thomas Paine

What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~ Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired. ~ Sir Walter Scott

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. ~ Orison Swett Marden

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character. ~ John D. Rockefeller

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. ~ Margaret Oliphant

We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone. ~ Charles Beacham

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe. ~ Karl Gutzkow

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you. ~ Brian Tracy

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. ~ Kim Hubbard

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. ~ Laurence J. Peter

People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said. ~ Shel Silverstein

Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that’s about it, because everything they do fails. ~ Rush Limbaugh

I don’t give the devil credit for creating nothing. ~ Little Richard

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. ~ Andrew Carnegie

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ~ Dwight Whitney Morrow

There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit. ~ Robert Woodruff

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. ~ Arnold H. Glasow

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. ~ Casey Stengel

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. ~ Dwight Whitney Morrow

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing. ~ Marie Carmichael Stopes

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man’s field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair. ~ Eugenie Clark

Give your kid some credit for being smart – just because they read about something doesn’t mean they will do it. ~ Lauren Myracle

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues. ~ Honore De Balzac

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them. ~ Oliver A. Fick

I’m lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground. ~ Lionel Messi

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. ~ William Westmoreland

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. ~ Harry S Truman Quotes

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. ~ Denis Waitley

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector. ~ Thomas Woods

Women don’t get the credit they deserve. ~ Mark Wahlberg

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. ~ Benjamin Jowett

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. ~ Indira Gandhi Quotes

Remember that credit is money. ~ Benjamin Franklin

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