Blame Quotes - Page 2

• One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Way, Faults, Common

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• Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

  Winston Churchill

  Thinking, Able, Bears

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• The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

  Washington Irving

  Failing, Ability, Things To Do

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• When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Relationship, Wedding

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Winning, Funny Simpsons, Win Or Lose

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• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.

  Wayne Dyer

  Jobs, Past, Weather

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• The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

  Plato

  God, Blameless

  Plato (1963). “The Republic”

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• Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

  Lionel Trilling

  Honor, Culture, Virtue

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.245, New York Review of Books

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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

  Albert Ellis

  Happiness, Responsibility, Destiny

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• To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

  Robert Orben

  Work, Technology, Geek

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• We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fate, Divinity, Praise

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.107, editionNEXT.com

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• Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist.

  Moshe Dayan

  Book, Israel, Names

  Moshe Dayan's address to the students at Technion University in Haifa, Israel (March 19, 1969), a transcription of which appeared in Ha'aretz (April 4, 1969); later quoted in Edward W. Said "The Question of Palestine" (p. 14), 1980.

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• I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Husband, Guilt, Unhappiness

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• Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

  Scott Adams

  Inspirational, Business, Long

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• There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Hate, Men

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts”, p.27, Faber & Faber

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• I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Temples, Worship

  "The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression". Book by Robert E. Gilbert, p. 78, 2003.

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• It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

  Maureen Forrester

  Mistake, Hardship, Overcoming

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• It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Glasses, Use, Literature

  "The Inspector General". Play by Nikolai Gogol, 1836.

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• When people are lame, they love to blame.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, People, Inspire

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Mar 29, 2010

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• Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

  Bertrand Russell

  Freedom, Humorous, Men

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• Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Witty, Funny Life, Lying

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• When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

  Joe Strummer

  Blame Someone, Hey, Faults

  Interview with Judy McGuire, Punk Magazine, www.punkmagazine.com. 2001.

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• We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opportunity, Justice, Judgement

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• American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  Jeff Olson

  Running, Failure, Responsibility

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