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• Before you look to blame another, look within yourself, for at some point you have not listened to your own instincts.

  Leon Brown

  Looks, Instinct

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• As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Long, Blame Someone, Problem

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• It is not love that is to blame. But each of us has resistance to the very love we desire. We also have resistance to the space and independence we need. So we go back and forth, not letting ourselves have one or the other. It all boils down to this: Are you willing to have your relationships be a pathway to fully revealing yourself and your potential? If you answer is Yes, real intimacy can be yours on a daily basis.

  Gay Hendricks

  Real, Space, Independence

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• A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Judging, Athletic

  Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.25, Human Kinetics

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• We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.

  Helen Keller

  Mean, Class, Names

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Responsibility, Expectations, Forever

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• Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Credit, Happens

  Twitter post from May 31, 2016

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• Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

  Simon Sinek

  Leader, Tools, Given

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• When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo

  Bell Hooks

  Practice, Creating, Effort

  Bell Hooks (2013). “Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice”, p.29, Routledge

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• Nobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else. My advice to you is don't fix the blame. Fix the problem.

  John Wooden

  Advice, Problem, Defeated

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• Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12); because He humbles Himself for the sake of the soul that is bent down to the ground, that He may even exalt within Himself that which is bent double under a weight of sin?... If so, you must blame the physician for stooping over suffering and putting up with evil smells in order to give health to the sick?

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Smell, Order

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• No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Choices, Temptation, Overcoming

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• But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Talking, Feet

  Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

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• When you don't flow freely with life in the present moment, it usually means that you're holding on to a past moment. It can be regret, sadness, hurt, fear, guilt, blame, anger, resentment, or sometimes even a desire for revenge. Each one of these states comes from a space of unforgiveness, a refusal to let go and come into the present moment. Only in the present moment can you create your future.

  Louise Hay

  Letting Go, Hurt, Revenge

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• Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Imagination, Empathy

  Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

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• This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but if a man be lost, all the blame is to be laid upon himself. You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences, salvation is all of the grace of God, damnation is all of the will of man.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Two, Grace

  Charles Spurgeon (2014). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.251, Titus Books

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• I think a great entrepreneur is learning every day. An entrepreneur is somebody that doesn't take no for an answer - they're going to figure something out. They also take responsibility. They don't blame anybody else. And they're dreamers in one sense but they're also realistic and they take affordable steps when they can.

  Daymond John

  Responsibility, Thinking, Entrepreneur

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• Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

  Epictetus

  Men, Ideas, Worried

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• An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Men, Ignorant

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• Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

  T. Harv Eker

  People, Unhappy, World

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 30, 2012

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• A winner makes mistakes. A loser blames others for them.

  Josh Linkner

  Mistake, Loser, Winner

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2011

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• Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.

  Bill Parcells

  Expect Nothing

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• Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!

  Axl Rose

  Bitter, Angry

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• CNN’s Rick Sanchez said the Jews run CNN. Ah, so that’s who we blame for Rick Sanchez.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Cnn, Said

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2010

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• To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

  Norman Mailer

  Taken, Government, Judging

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