Thales Quotes

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

… his [Charles Evans Hughes’] greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man. I think it was one of the strongest things about [Theodore] Roosevelt. He never tried to minimize what other people did and often exaggerated it..

We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.

No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.

There are only so many times I can say, 'I owe it to my offensive linemen,' or, 'The credit should go to my teammates,' before it becomes run down.

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

A wise person would never be eager to ask for acknowledgment of his or her contribution.

I'm not complaining if my work is getting more recognition than me.

I do not do a remix without crediting the original makers. For me, that is what is most important.

I'd never take any credit for David's music - that's all his.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

I will take a little bit of credit because I did come up with 'you're welcome.'

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

You have to let your team get all the credit for all the good stuff that happens, and you take responsibility for the bad stuff.

I've always believed in the saying that "there is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."

If you take the credit, you lose it. If you give away the credit, it comes back multiplied.

Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego.

Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought; but it will always be known.

I feel humbled by the fact that there's any interest in me at all.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth.

It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war.