No. I will up vote something like this. We all make mistakes. Owning up to it, and learning from it is the decent thing to do.
You should feel free to post things that inspire you, just state who they are and tell us how they inspired you. If you can get those people to come to steemit and share that is even better.
Owning up takes courage. Steem on!
Yeah, I forgot to say in my comment here that it's ok to share other people's stuff (with consideration to copyright) as long as you're not explicitly or implicitly claiming as your own.
I appreciate that. I lost myself trying to gain followers on here and it got the best of me.