Blame Quotes - Page 39

• The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.

  Akio Morita

  Mistake, Views, Important

  "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 149), 1986.

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• When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it.

  Josei Toda

  Inspirational, Sad, Past

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• Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.

  John Taylor Gatto

  School, Ideas, Sound

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.51, New Society Publishers

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• If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Risk, Breakthrough

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• It's triumphant for someone to wake up to life. I feel a tremendous sense of liberation. You want to be able to use both your intuitive side and your go-get-'em side with no blame.

  Meg Ryan

  Intuition, Wake Up, Ems

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• She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!

  Andrew Card

  Approval Rating, Appreciate, Leaving

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• People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Lying, People, Marketing

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• You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

  Bernard Baruch

  Overcoming, Complaining, Economy

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• The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame on the rise of Christianity. . . . Although they do not inquire into the future, and either forget or do not know the past, yet defame present times as most unusually beset, as it were, by evils because there is belief in Christ and worship of God, and increasingly less worship of idols.

  Orosius

  Time, Fall, Past

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• As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.

  John Wooden

  Art, Long, Trying

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• Don't blame yourself for the declines, because one day you will credit yourself for the increases.

  Craig Groeschel

  One Day, Credit, Increase

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• If I go to hell, then heavens to blame

  Hopsin

  Heaven, Hell, Ifs

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• I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for having suffered this horrid trade to be carried on under their authority. We are all guilty—we ought all to plead guilty, and not to exculpate ourselves by throwing the blame on others; and I therefore deprecate every kind of reflection against the various descriptions of people who are more immediately involved in this wretched business.

  William Wilberforce

  Mean, Reflection, People

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• At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the error of blaming it on the computer.

  Tom Gilb

  Learning, Errors, Two

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• Be strong: we are not here to play, to dream, to drift, we have hard work to do and loads to lift, shun not the struggle, face it, 'tis god's gift. Be strong: say not the days are evil - who's to blame! And fold your hands and acquiesce - o shame! Stand up, speak out, and bravely in god's name. Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong. How hard the battle goes, the day, how long! Faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Dream, Song, Strong

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• And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

  Plato

  Words Of Wisdom, Use, Philosopher

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• Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Giving Up, Anger

  Swami Vivekananda, (2013). “Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda”, p.39, Read Books Ltd

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• Blame is the cowards way out.

  Elvin Hayes

  Sports, Psychology, Coward

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• A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

  William Wordsworth

  Kissing, Simple, Simplicity

  'She was a phantom of delight' (1807)

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• 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

  Love, Art, Life Lesson

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• I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.

  Jay Johnstone

  Baseball, Marine, Shoes

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• It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.

  Blaine Nye

  Work, Winning, Gambling

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• Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Excuse, Refuse

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.8, Jaico Publishing House

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• Don't take too much credit for your children - or too much blame!

  Debora Spar

  Inspiring, Children, Credit

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• It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

  Confucius

  Kings, Anger, Army

  Confucius (1967). “Li Chi: Book of Rites: An Encyclopedia of Ancient Ceremonial Usages, Religious Creeds, and Social Institutions”

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