Blaming Yourself Quotes

• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

  Albert Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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• Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don't make yourself a victim of yourself!

  Susan Jeffers

  Mean, Responsibility, Blame

  Susan Jeffers (2014). “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”, p.57, Random House

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• When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Blame, About Yourself, Criticize

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Sep 06, 2011

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• Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.

  Guy Finley

  Mirrors, Action, Blame

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• You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on." Homer Simpson

  Matt Groening

  Inspirational, Motivational, Broken Heart

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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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• Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Recovery, Addiction, Doing You

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change.

  Cassandra Clare

  Faults, Blame, Who You Are

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.657, Simon and Schuster

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  To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

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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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• Don't waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Enemy, Waste, Wasting Time

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2014). “Unmade (The Lynburn Legacy Book 3)”, p.120, Random House Books for Young Readers

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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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