Blame Quotes - Page 23

• It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.

  Dan Millman

  Life, Eye, Responsibility

  Dan Millman (2006). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives”, p.28, H J Kramer

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• I admire David De Gea. I cannot remember anyone coming into Manchester United and being criticised the way he was. He was the subject of every debate in the media. You haven’t seen De Gea defend himself in the media or shifting the blame elsewhere. He just gets on with it.

  Peter Schmeichel

  Media, Way, Shifting

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• Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself.

  Robin Sharma

  Blaming Others

  Robin Sharma (2015). “The Mastery Manual: A Life-Changing Guide for Personal and Professional Greatness”, p.10, Jaico Publishing House

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• They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.

  Ann Richards

  Country, Children, Home

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• I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.

  Mary Stewart

  Book, People, Earth

  Mary Stewart (1969). “Nine Coaches Waiting”

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• How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

  Richard Bach

  Wish, Credit, Resent

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• When blame has been assigned, the story is over.

  Charles Baxter

  Stories, Has Beens

  Charles Baxter (1997). “Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction”

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• When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.

  Eric Ries

  Senior, Mistake, People

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.235, Crown Business

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• To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Judging, Weakest Link, Casts

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Oklahoma City bombing was done on purpose. Did you know the Federal Government blew up their own building to blame it on the militias and to get rid of some people that weren't cooperating with the system?

  Kent Hovind

  Oklahoma City, Government, Cities

  "Evolution: the Foundation for Communism, Nazism, Socialism, and the New World Order". Book by Kent Hovind, 2003.

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• I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. Those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who are responsible do not.

  David Frye

  Jobs, Responsibility, Differences

  "Richard Nixon: A Fantasy". Album by David Frye, 1973.

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• Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.

  Abraham Foxman

  Mistake, Past, Problem

  "Jackson Told To Apologize for "Anti-Semitic Rant" by wenn.com, November 25, 2005.

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• My kids are around pit bulls every day. In the ’70s they blamed Dobermans, in the ’80s they blamed German Shepherds, in the ’90s they blamed the Rottweiler. Now they blame the Pit Bull.

  Cesar Millan

  Kids, Shepherds, Rottweilers

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• His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

  Unknown

  Lying, Believe, People

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• The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White House. You can't blame members of Congress for looking out for their parochial interests. It is the president's responsibility to look out for the national interest.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Responsibility, White, House

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• The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

  Bill Crawford

  Mistake, Looks, Only Time

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• There is no moral to my song,
  I praise no right, I blame no wrong;
  I tell of things that I have seen,
  I show the man that I have been
  As simply as a poet can
  Who knows himself poet and man.

  Thomas MacDonagh

  Song, Men, Moral

  Thomas MacDonagh, “Of My Poems”

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• In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism.

  Frank Chodorov

  Song, America, Special

  Frank Chodorov (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

  Bill Courtney

  Giving, Leader, Mentor

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• True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse

  Pat Martino

  Art, Praise, Judged

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• There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on.

  Christian Finnegan

  Disappointment, External Forces, Faster

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• This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It’s a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin blaming our culture, which stigmatizes, demeans, and strips trans women of their humanity.

  Janet Mock

  Practice, Ideas, Humanity

  Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do not attract the loyalty of such minds unless they 'work'. One of the first things a graduate student learns is that if there is a discrepancy between the paradigm and what he or she has discovered, then the automatic assumption is that the paradigm is right and the student wrong. Just as a good workman never blames his tools, so the diligent student never blames his paradigm

  John Naughton

  Loyalty, Powerful, Intelligent

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• We're taught as young kids Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He didn't just try to blame someone else.

  Mark Foley

  Mistake, Lying, Kids

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• A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there.

  Marshall Cook

  Leadership, Jobs, Mistake

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