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• Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

  Stephen Covey

  Responsibility, People, Choices

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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  I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

  Catherine the Great

  Rewards, Quiet, Praise

  "The Historians' History of the World". Book by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423, 1903.

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• The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them.

  Fred Savage

  Years, People, Kevin

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

  Peter Shaffer

  Thinking, People, Parent

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• Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.

  Ken Mehlman

  Hymns, America, Leader

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• History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

  Cotton Mather

  History, Events, Stories

  Cotton Mather (1977). “Magnalia Christi Americana, books I and II”

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• Oh! blame not the bard.

  Thomas More

  Bards

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• The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.

  Dido Armstrong

  Opposites, Sometimes, Realizing

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• I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Complaining, Records

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• We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Judging, Causes

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

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• The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Dont blame others for your own inadequacies.

  Greg Ginn

  Predator, Use, Threat

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• When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

  Louis Nizer

  Kids, Responsibility, Men

  My Life in Court ch. 1 (1961)

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• Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

  Alan Sugar

  Lying, Trying, World

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• The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may give buoyancy to the soul. In many families, there are hurt feelings and a reluctance to forgive. It doesn’t really matter what the issue was. It cannot and should not be left to injure. Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals. George Herbert, an early 17th-century poet, wrote these lines: ‘He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven, for everyone has need of forgiveness.’

  Thomas S. Monson

  Strong, Hurt, Bridges

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• Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

  Seneca the Younger

  Giving, Judgement, Speak

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• It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room?

  Colman McCarthy

  Moving, Ocean, Caring

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• Many think that assigning blame settles matters.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Guilt, Matter

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• It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Pain, Recovery, Being Alone

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• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Stay Strong, Perseverance, Lonely

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

  Epictetus

  Men, Instruction, Ill

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one — THEMSELVES.

  Robert Collier

  People, Environmental, Persons

  "Be Rich".

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• In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Praise

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.

  Moby

  Country, Jobs, Cynical

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• There will be plenty of blame to go around but if you take credit for the sunshine, you also get blamed for the rain.

  Tom Rath

  Rain, Sunshine, Credit

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• You got a lot but you just waste all yourself. They'll forget your name soon and won't nobody be to blame but yourself.

  Azealia Banks

  Names, Waste, Forget You

  Song: 212 ftLazy Jay, Album: 1991, 2012

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