Pointing Fingers Quotes

• Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!

  Bob Marley

  Life, Music, Conceited

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• Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Hands, Judging Yourself, Judging Others

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• Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.

  Robert Breault

  Responsibility, Kids, Helping Others

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• Let's try and bring out the best in all of us and a positive vision of working together to solve big problems, to recognize that, yes, all is not right, things need to be fixed. We're better off solving things by working together than by pointing fingers at other people.

  Justin Trudeau

  People, Vision, Working Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

  LZ Granderson

  Assessment, Self, Blame

  "Negligent parents, lawbreaking kids" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. August 22, 2013.

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• My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Offering, Hands, Helping

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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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• Before pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.

  Bob Marley

  Hands, Judging Others, I'm Not Perfect

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• There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.

  Alyson Noel

  Wise, Native American, Three

  Alyson Noel (2012). “Fated”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining; I'm about getting things done.

  Christine Quinn

  Talking, Complaining, Done

  "Christine Quinn formally announces bid to be New York's first female mayor" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2013.

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• Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.

  Mary Douglas

  Religious, Bazaars, Body

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• Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

  Mark Foley

  House, Honor, Trying

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• There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.

  Jo Bonner

  Offering, Hands, Storm

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• While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.

  Ken Mehlman

  Hands, Effort, Tears

  "GOP leaders agree to joint Katrina hearings", www.cnn.com. September 8, 2005.

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• And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.

  Justin Guarini

  Responsibility, Knowing, Issues

  "Justin Guarini says he has no hard feelings for 'IDOL' - really!" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. January 23, 2006.

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• Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Law, Speak English, Skills

  "Meet The Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

  Bernie Mac

  Self, Blame, Remember

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• I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Thinking, Worst Enemy, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Believe, Teaching

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• Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Mistake, Moon, Fingers

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• There are few master teachers in life. ... But there are many who can listen to life so well that they can hear the vastness in everything and in you. A teacher is someone who has learned to listen to life. Someone who has found a way to listen well. Any real teacher is only a finger pointing. In the end, we may find out more by not following our teachers but by following what our teachers follow for themselves. From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secrets of life. You will have to listen for yourself.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Teacher, Real, Secret

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• Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives

  Bennie Thompson

  Grieving, Doe, Answers

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• I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sweet, Mistake, Night

  Charles Bukowski, Seamus Cooney (1983). “The Bukowski Purdy letters: a decade of dialogue, 1964-1974”

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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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• I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don't look at me; look at the moon.

  Gautama Buddha

  Moon, Looks, Awareness

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