Blame Quotes - Page 18

• The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hate, Feminist, Feminism

  "Failure of the feminists" by Paul Johnson, www.spectator.co.uk. March 12, 2011.

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• 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

  Moments, Individual, Steroid

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• Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.

  Hyman Rickover

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Unique

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life -- that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 20, 2012

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• Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

  Denis Waitley

  Loser, Problem, Winner

  Denis Waitley (1985). “The Double Win”

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• Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself.

  Robin Sharma

  Blaming Others

  Robin Sharma (2015). “The Mastery Manual: A Life-Changing Guide for Personal and Professional Greatness”, p.10, Jaico Publishing House

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• I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.

  Mary Stewart

  Book, People, Earth

  Mary Stewart (1969). “Nine Coaches Waiting”

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• To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Judging, Weakest Link, Casts

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.

  Anthony Kiedis

  People, Childhood, Drug

  "Scar Tissue". Book by Anthony Kiedis and Larry Sloman, 2004.

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• Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

  Homer

  Grief, Fate, Men

  Homer (2005). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.4, Bantam Classics

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• I find so many people struggling, often working harder, simply because they cling to old ideas. They want things to be the way they were; they resist change. I know people who are losing their jobs or their houses, and they blame technology or the economy or their boss. Sadly they fail to realize that they might be the problem. Old ideas are their biggest liability. It is a liability simply because they fail to realize that while that idea or way of doing something was an asset yesterday, yesterday is gone.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Struggle, Technology

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• Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

  Herta Muller

  Once Upon A Time, Luck, Bad Luck

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• Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.

  Brené Brown

  Painful Feelings, Self, Perfect

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.111, Penguin

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• If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

  Brené Brown

  Inspirational, Real, Grief

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• The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trying, Needs, Auditors

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.384, Random House

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• Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Feelings, Awareness

  Deepak Chopra (2012). “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges”, p.14, Harmony

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• Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Fashion, Crazy, Shoes

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2006). “The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings”, p.25, Bantam Classics

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• He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.

  E. M. Forster

  Crush, Real, Adventure

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.273, 谷月社

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• Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. It was one of the girliest things Simon had ever seen, and he didn’t blame Alec for ducking out from under it and taking his chances with the rain.

  Cassandra Clare

  Rain, Flower, Chance

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• No one blames her." "That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Guilt, Matter, Lost Souls

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Fortunately for me, I'm still evolving into the person I'm supposed to be. And though they don't know it yet, and may not come to accept it, I'm done living by their protocols or anyone else's. I'm the only one who will take credit for my successes. And I'm the only one who will take the blame for my mistakes. From now on, I live for me.

  Megan McCafferty

  Mistake, Credit, Done

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• No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

  Jose Rizal

  Fall, Blow, Ducks

  Jose Rizal (2010). “Noli Me Tangere: Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero”, p.278, BookBaby

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• You blame me for this, don't you?" he says. "I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

  Melina Marchetta

  Jobs, Needs, Blame Me

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• You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler

  Max Brooks

  Choices, Mountain, Boulders

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• They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Breathing, Gold, Be Good

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.22, Hachette UK

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