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Credited Quotes

On giving credit where it's due.

This set of quotes explores who gets credited for ideas, inventions, and influence, including Benjamin Franklin's credited inventions from the postal system to lightning rods, discussed further under Like quotes.

Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.

Quotes by A. R. Rahman

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

Quotes by W. L. George

As the grandson of Italian immigrants, maybe I am biased, but I think Christopher Columbus, the man who is rightfully credited with bringing European civilization to the Western Hemisphere, deserves the national holiday enacted by Congress in 1934.

Quotes by Tom Tancredo

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

Quotes by Richard Wagner

Art Quotes

In 1971, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi defeated Pakistan, and our leader, A. B. Vajpayee, who was in the Opposition, praised her, and she was credited with the military victory, similarly, why can't Prime Minister Narendra Modi be credited for...

Quotes by Rajnath Singh

As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.

Quotes by Pankaj Mishra

I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating transportation facilities to address their regional transportation needs.

Quotes by Michael C. Burgess

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.

Quotes by Margaret Oliphant

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

Quotes by Lawrence G. Lovasik

He Quotes

I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant....

Quotes by Judith Viorst

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

Quotes by Jon Bon Jovi

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.

Quotes by John Wycliffe

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

Quotes by Jerry Saltz

The revenue stream for Social Security benefits comes from payroll taxes, which are credited to the Social Security Trust Fund - accounting for the program's finances separately from the rest of the budget.

Quotes by Jerome Powell

Life Quotes

My father, in 1952, just in his 20s, my father became the chief spokesman for the Nation of Islam. From 1952 to 1959, there were four temples. My father was responsible and credited for having maximized this membership. From four...

Quotes by Ilyasah Shabazz

People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.

Quotes by Harvey Pekar

The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book.

Quotes by Graydon Carter

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

Quotes by Ginger Baker

There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later...

Quotes by Gary Burton

Like Quotes

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul...

Quotes by Eliza Farnham

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Credited quotes collection about?
This page gathers quotes about being credited - for ideas, inventions, discoveries, or personal inspiration. The lines span historical figures and personal reflections on who deserves recognition and why.
Why do people search for quotes about being credited?
The idea of credit touches on fairness, legacy, and gratitude, so people look for these quotes when discussing recognition in work, history, or family life, often for writing or speeches.
Which historical figures are mentioned in these credited quotes?
Christopher Columbus and Benjamin Franklin both appear. One quote credits Columbus with bringing European civilization to the Western Hemisphere, while another lists Franklin's credited contributions, including the postal system and lightning rods, related further in Like quotes.
Do any of these quotes credit family members rather than famous figures?
Yes, one quote credits a mother's love of reading poetry aloud as the inspiration behind a career in writing, showing that credit in this collection isn't limited to public achievements.
Is credit always about achievement in these quotes?
Not exactly. One quote reflects on how women historically were credited with instinct and intuition rather than intellect, illustrating that being 'credited' with something can also reveal outdated assumptions about a person or group.

Other lines credit a parent's quiet influence, such as a mother's passion for reading shaping a future writer. See also Life and Art quotes for related reflections.