Blame Quotes

• You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self Improvement, Unhappy, May

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 13, 2011

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• 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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• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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• 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

  4th Of July, Responsibility, Past

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, www.jfklibrary.org. February 18, 1958.

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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 pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Feelings, Intuition, Criticism

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Time, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 29, 2015

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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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• Many think that assigning blame settles matters.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Guilt, Matter

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• When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Meaningful, Positive Thinking

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• One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Way, Faults, Common

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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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• To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Political, Blame Someone, Politics

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Winning, Funny Simpsons, Win Or Lose

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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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• When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Relationship, Wedding

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• 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.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Journey, Best Effort, Obstacles

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• I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

  Leon Spinks

  Boxing, Wanted, Ifs

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• Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

  Lawrence Summers

  Greek, Investing, Financial

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• The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.

  Mark V. Hurd

  Blame Someone, Use, Easier

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• The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hunting, Accountability, Scapegoat

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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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• 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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• 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

  Motivational, Memories, Good Life

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jul 08, 2014

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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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