88 Pointing Fingers Quotes
Following is our list of pointing fingers quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about pointing fingers at others.
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Famous Pointing Fingers Quotes
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. — Louis Nizer
Before pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean. — Bob Marley
Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean. — Jimi Hendrix
Clean your finger before you point at my spots. — Benjamin Franklin
Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon. — Wei Wu Wei
When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys. — Mitt Romney
When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger. — Confucius
On the other hand, you have different fingers. — Steven Wright
Blaming others is excusing yourself. — Robin Sharma
Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger. — Patrick Stump
We humans are better at pointing out the elephants in other rooms than in our own. — Lex Fridman
When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself. — Deepak Chopra
Blame is the cowards way out. — Elvin Hayes
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
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. — Fulton J. Sheen
Short Pointing Fingers Quotes
- Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing. — Thales
- Before you point out others people’s shortcomings, correct your own first. — Filipino Proverbs
- Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself. — Robin Sharma
- Hold your head high, and your middle finger higher. — Megan Fox
- To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. — Hubert H. Humphrey
- People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another. — Rumi
- There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. — Samuel Beckett
- Five fingers are brothers but are not equals. — Afghan Proverbs
- Everyone is critical of the flaws of others, but blind to their own. — Arabic Proverbs
- And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers. — Alexandra Bracken
Pointing Fingers At Others Quotes
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
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
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
When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself and calmness in a situation, where otherwise self-control becomes problematic. — Dalai Lama
There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America — Arlo Guthrie
Hollywood loves to pat itself on the back and espouse their rhetorically liberal points of view while they continue to be the 1 percent and point the finger at the other guy. — Harry Lennix
It is very easy to point fingers at others sitting at home, but very difficult to play the game. — Misbah-ul-Haq
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger? — Arundhati Roy
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
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
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
People Writing About Pointing Fingers
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Robin Sharma |
557 | 2532 |
 Louis Nizer |
22 | 461 |
 Bob Marley |
297 | 21929 |
 Jimi Hendrix |
210 | 3811 |
 Benjamin Franklin |
1399 | 22156 |
 Wei Wu Wei |
39 | 797 |
More Pointing Fingers Quotes
Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates. — Michael Jordan
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
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. — Graham Greene
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
When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him. — B. J. Palmer
Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon's location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger, right? — Huineng
I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses. — Ja Rule
Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong. — Pema Chodron
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say? — Xi Jinping
Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality. — Steven Forrest
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
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow. — Mervyn Peake
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
As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven. — Jack Kerouac
Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that! — Sylvester Stallone
I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony. — Glenn Miller
I just believe as a Christian, we are to show love; we are to show compassion to people, not to point the finger, not to do this, but to do this - to love them, to welcome them, to embrace them. — Franklin Graham
God isn't what's wrong with the world. It's just who people blame when there's nowhere to point the finger but at ourselves. — James Dye
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
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
My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand. — Kathleen Blanco
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
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. — Khaled Hosseini
Those who influenced me the most are not those who pointed out all my faults, but those who knew God was bigger than my shortcomings. Those who influenced me the most didn't just point a finger, they held out a helping hand. — Phil Callaway
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
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
If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there. — Jock Sturges
I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you. — Bob Marley
As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. — Helen Palmer Geisel
Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing. — Anthony De Mello
Never point a finger where you never lent a hand. — Robert Breault
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