Blame Quotes

• You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self Improvement, Unhappy, May

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 13, 2011

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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

  Albert Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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• Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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• Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Responsibility, Past

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, www.jfklibrary.org. February 18, 1958.

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• I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Feelings, Intuition, Criticism

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Time, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 29, 2015

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• Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Recovery, Addiction, Doing You

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.

  St. Jerome

  Faults, Changed

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• No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

  Nhat Hanh

  Understanding, Argument, Situation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Meaningful, Positive Thinking

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  If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

  John Milton

  Marriage, Office, May

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.81

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• By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.

  Jeb Bush

  Real, Responsibility, Problem

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• You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can't be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean every time, you blame, justify, or complain, you are slitting your financial throat.

  T. Harv Eker

  Mean, Secret, Complaining

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 13, 2013

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• Blame is safer than praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Criticism, Praise, Critics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.129, Penguin

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• To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Political, Blame Someone, Politics

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

  Mitt Romney

  Tails, Donkey, Pins

  "Mitt Romney Defends The Bush Record" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2010.

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• How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

  Erica Jong

  Forever, Blame Someone, May

  erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

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• We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

  Confucius

  Wise, Mistake, Failure

  Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

  Douglas Coupland

  Lazy, Way, Chaos

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “All Families are Psychotic”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Blaming others is excusing yourself.

  Robin Sharma

  Excuse, Blaming Others

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Aug 01, 2015

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• Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

  Byron Katie

  Responsibility, Giving, Judgement

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• You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Clouds, Eccentric, Grey Skies

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.39, Jazzybee Verlag

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