Top 227 Attributed Quotes & Sayings

Authenticity is not an innate quality - that is, you are not born with it. Being an authentic leader is not something you can say about yourself; it must be attributed to you.

Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.

Government is a collective unity. There is no decision by cabinet which can be attributed to one individual.

I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.

The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

Drag is a chicken suit, and you're very emboldened. Whatever you do or say or fail at or succeed at is attributed to your costume and not you as a person. So there's a lot of freedom.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

The credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.

Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.

Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.

The rise of populism is in part a response to stagnating incomes and job loss, owing mostly to new technologies but widely attributed to imports and immigrants.

I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Some credit is due to Trump for seizing the anti establishment mood of the country, but most of his success can be attributed to pure luck.

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.

The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in my own work, could be attributed to testimonies.

In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

I love the term "everything is copy," attributed to Nora Ephron, which was my guiding principle as I wrote.

It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.

The disgraces I suffer should be attributed to me, but the praises that I get go to my family and teachers. It is they who decided what I would become.

Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.

Our present political world-view, current in Germany, is based in general on the idea that creative, culture-creating force must indeed be attributed to the state.

President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust.

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos

Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

Although the gospels of the New Testament-- like those discovered at Nag Hammadi-- are attributed to Jesus' followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

I have always attributed my abilities to play football and, really, all other skills and attributes, to God.

The hollowing out of the heartland was good for Walmart's bottom line: its slogan might have been an amoral maxim attributed to Lenin - 'The worse, the better.'