When you blame others, you give up your power to change. — Dr. Robert Anthony
Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem. — Eric Allenbaugh
Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth. — Wayne Dyer
People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another. — Rumi
Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others. — Unknown
If we blame others for our failures, then we should also give others credit for our successes. — American Proverbs
Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future. — Andy Stanley
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
Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other. — Francisco Pizarro
The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. — Maimonides
It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.
Stop Blaming Others Quotes
Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese. — Pol Pot
If you continue to blame other people for “making” you feel guilty, they still have power over you, and you are saying that you will only feel good when they stop doing that. You are giving them control over your life. Stop blaming other people. — Henry Cloud
There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability. — John Miller
Don’t let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems. — Thubten Yeshe
Stop caring what other people think. How? Understand that this is your life, not theirs, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself if things don't work out the way you'd hoped...their opinion shouldn't matter more than your own. — Stephanie Klein
Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means. — Alanis Morissette
Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free. — Tian Dayton
If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything. — Albert Ellis
Always Blaming Others Quotes
It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes. — Paulo Coelho
There's always got to be room for what you might call benign corruption. Nobody blames a man who steals food to feed his starving children, but on the other hand, somebody who picks up a badge and takes an oath to serve and protect; we do expect a certain level of essential honesty. — Denzel Washington
Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others. — C. S. Lewis
People who feel the need to control others, don't have control over themselves.
My pride and immaturity caused me to make things more of a struggle than they had to be. I can always blame others or circumstances, but the truth was that my own sinful pride led to more stress than anything else. — Francis Chan
Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others. — Amish Tripathi
It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. — Paulo Coelho
I always wanted to take the blame. I've always been apologetic for other people's faults. — Lindsay Lohan
And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there would always be someone to blame. — Stephen Chbosky
The grievance industry always seeks to blame other people while never finding a solution. That's my problem with it, when solutions are there to be had. — Rush Limbaugh
Luckily, due to my own ego, probably, I'm always quicker to blame other people. — Seth Rogen
Not Blaming Others Quotes
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life. — Leo Tolstoy
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us. — Eric Hoffer
Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations. — Tom Brady
We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility. — Paul Ryan
He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for those very principles. He who proceeds without principle, as chance, timidity, or self-preservation directs, will not perhaps fare better; but he will be less blamed. — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you. — Wayne Dyer
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. — J. Michael Straczynski
It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it. — Bashar al-Assad
Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild — Paulo Coelho
When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be no blame anywhere. One swallows what is, and becomes free. — Rodney Collin
Blame Someone Quotes
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. — Oscar Wilde
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. — Robert Bloch
You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else. — Bum Phillips
A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else. — J. Paul Getty
Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now? — Jose Canseco
Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them — Byron Katie
How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. — Erica Jong
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. — Anita Brookner
To love someone whom you like is insignificant.
To love someone because they love you is of no consequence.
To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life.
To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others. — Lao Tzu
Blaming Yourself Quotes
Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself. — Deepak Chopra
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. — Albert Ellis
You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now. — John Spence
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change. — Katharine Hepburn
You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important. — Sidney Sheldon
Don't blame a clown for acting the clown, ask yourself why you keep going to the circus. — Gary Brecka
Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.' — Wayne Dyer
If you blame others for your misfortunes, you won't be rich. Take ownership of yourself. — Changpeng Zhao
How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect? — Elif Safak
Placing Blame Quotes
Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame. — Ray Bourque
When you face discouragement, you can do one of two things, and the one you choose will color your perspective. You can look at others to place the blame, or you can look at yourself to discover your opportunities. The choice is yours. — John C. Maxwell
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame. — Paul Farmer
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame. — Oscar Wilde
If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect. — Leo Tolstoy
You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism. — William Peter Blatty
The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us. — Alice Miller
I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure. — Kathleen Parker
Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame. — Stephen King
An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame. — Bo Bennett
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. — John F. Kennedy
Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper. — Henri Nouwen
All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner. — John Gray
You can't blame gravity for falling in love. — Albert Einstein
There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion. — Ibn Arabi
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
Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried. — Merle Haggard
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. — Rudyard Kipling
Blame Game Quotes
Don’t brush anything under the rug. Don’t point fingers or do the blame game. A team is a family, and we’re in this together. — Erik Spoelstra
The only time a politico will try to avoid playing the blame game is when they or theirs are to blame. — Jon Stewart
When things go bad, it's easy to point fingers. People who attempt to switch the blame are afraid to fail. We've all been afraid to fail before a game, but it shouldn't stop us from continuing, and from doing what we have to do to get the job done. — John Elway
Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over. — Mary Schmich
Some areas near Dallas experienced a 3.5-magnitude earthquake, which some blame on fracking. However, scientists say that it was more likely aftershocks from Chris Christie celebrating at the Cowboys game. — Jimmy Fallon
From this moment forward…I stop the blame game and excuses. I am responsible for my life and for where I am today. I cannot blame the people and circumstances in my past, and I refuse to hide behind my past mistakes. — Lance Wubbels
I pray that our leaders stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game and seek a real solution for the good of the planet and all who inhabit it. — Don Cheadle
The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls. — Herman Cain
I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance. — Jane Siberry
If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game. — Ron Wyden
Never Blame Quotes
Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories. — Zig Ziglar
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. — Casey Stengel
Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices. — Caroline Myss
Success isn’t the same as talent. The world is full of incredibly talented people who never succeed at anything. They show up, do what they do, and if it doesn’t work out, they blame everyone else because they believe talent should be enough. — Tim Grover
Our challenge in life is to use the abilities we have, and to compensate for the abilities we don’t have. Successful people compensate for what they don’t have. Unsuccessful people make excuses, blame everyone else and never get past the deficiencies. — Tim Grover
As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others. — John Wooden
I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion. — Darren Aronofsky
Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best. — Bernard Baruch
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
Taking The Blame Quotes
I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him. — Woody Hayes
People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change. — Daniel Goleman
This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath. — Anthony the Great
Having a financial adviser enables the investor to carry a psychological call option. If the investment decision turns out well, the investor takes the credit, and if it turns out badly, the regret can be lowered by blaming the adviser. — Hersh Shefrin
One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life. — Iyanla Vanzant
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. — Dwight Morrow
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. — Dwight Whitney Morrow
They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children. — Ann Richards
The word responsibility is interesting because if you take it apart, it’s actually the ability to respond. — Dan Sullivan
Blame Me Quotes
If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael
Me, I don’t want any children, I don’t want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men. — George Michael
There's a lot of people scared of me, and I can't blame them. They call me crazy so much I think I'm starting to believe them. — Gucci Mane
You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it. It's an easy way to escape responsibility." — Ice Cube
You blame me for weeping, but how can I help it when you will not weep for yourselves, though your immortal souls are on the verge of destruction. — George Whitefield
And God said 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.' — George Burns
Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad - don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you. — Jack LaLanne
I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it. — John Daly
I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing. — Alberta Hunter
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