God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.
Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.
Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.
The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things that he does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pendant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.
Some credit in being jolly.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Money talks â but credit has an echo.
No man's credit is as good as his money.
The credite of the Realme, by defending the same with Wodden Walles, as Themistocles called the Ship of Athens.
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.