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• We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Love, Daughter, Common Sense

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• Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Awards, Criticism, Discrimination

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.19

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• I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Truth, Perfect, Joy

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• It is not enough to behave reverently; we must feel in our hearts reverence for our Heavenly Father and our Lord, Jesus Christ. Reverence flows from our admiration and respect for Deity. It is something we feel inside our hearts no matter what is going on around us. It is also a personal responsibility. We cannot blame others for disturbing our reverent attitudes.

  L. Tom Perry

  Jesus, Attitude, Father

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• Definition of responsibility: a commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix blame.

  John G. Miller

  Heart, Commitment, Responsibility

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• Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame.

  Khalil Gibran

  Summer, Fear, Spring

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• You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.

  Ken Kesey

  Country, Vision, President

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• Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.

  Rick Warren

  People, Accountability, Advice

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 14, 2013

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• Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Men, Names

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.105

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• Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

  Stephen Covey

  Lynching, People, Choices

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.545, Mango Media Inc.

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• You may blame yourself for not being strong enough to appreciate some unhappy people in spite of their negative emotional offerings toward you. Well, we would never suggest that you be able to look at something you do not want and feel good about it. Instead, look for things that cause you to feel appreciation when you find them-and then the Law Of Attraction will bring you more things like those.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Strong, Emotional

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Manifest Your Desires: 365 Ways to Make Your Dreams a Reality”, p.218, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

  Epictetus

  Self, Ill, Persons

  Epictetus (1967). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Long, Understanding, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.260, Rajpal & Sons

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• We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

  Albert Ellis

  Essence, Neurosis, Single Word

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• You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

  Diogenes

  Teacher

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• To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion; and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Justice, Principles

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.235

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• Introverts tend to internalize problems. In other words, we place the source of problems within and blame ourselves. Though introverts may also externalize and see others as the problem, it's more convenient to keep the problem "in house." Internalizers tend to be reliable and responsible, but we can also be very hard on ourselves.

  Laurie Helgoe

  House, May, Problem

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.194, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

  John Milton

  Tears, Weakness, Noble

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 1721

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• Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Trying, Way

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• A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.22, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• ...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so that it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all.

  John McGahern

  Ideas, Feelings, Pace

  "Amongst Women". Book by John McGahern, www.theguardian.com. 1990.

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• The less you blame others the more you will succeed.

  Anabel Jensen

  Succeed

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• By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read. By our attitude, we decide to try or give up. By our attitude, we blame ourselves for our failure, or we blame others. Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail.

  Jim Rohn

  Giving Up, Attitude, Lying

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 19, 2012

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• Today I release the need to blame anyone, including myself.

  Louise Hay

  Needs, Today, Release

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Oct 10, 2013

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• Nobody is a real loser-until they start blaming somebody else.

  John Wooden

  Real, Loser

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