Blame Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.

  Seth Godin

  Leadership, People, Engagement

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• PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Attachment, Practice

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm not going to blame a referee for something I feel like I should be able to control. I should get up quicker. If you want to win fights, you just have to do it, regardless of what's going on.

  Sara McMann

  Fighting, Winning, Want

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• If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

  Grace Metalious

  Hate, War, Men

  Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.281, UPNE

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• He answered, "The woman whom You gave to be with me" (Gen 3:9-12), he did not say, "the woman deceived me," but "The woman whom You gave to me," as if he wanted to say: "This catastrophe has come upon me because of You." So it is, brethren, since Man is not accustomed to blame himself. He does not hesitate to consider even God as the cause of evil.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Humility, Men, Evil

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• Why did you act in this way, you pitiable ones? Make a bow of repentance, recognize your fault, be sorry for your nakedness. Neither one of them could blame himself, neither of them had the least bit of humility.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Sorry, Humility, Way

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• We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

  Jack Cade

  Kings, Men, Law

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• There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason . . . She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.

  Steven Morrissey

  Arrogance, Royal, Shame

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• North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.

  Paul Watson

  Cat, Animal, Together

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• Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

  Will Cuppy

  Animal, Men, Race

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• One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people or external factors- or otherwise explain away the data- rather than confront the frightening reality that the enterprise may be in serious trouble.

  Susan Collins

  Leadership, Reality, Data

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• Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Destiny, Poor, Destination

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• You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• I don't blame individuals, Elton, I blame myself

  Joe Royle

  Soccer, Funny Soccer, Individual

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• If you had to name one particular person to blame it would have to be one of the players

  Theo Foley

  Soccer, Player, Names

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• Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Theatre, Triumph, Losing

  "If - " st. 1 (1910)

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• Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Adversity, Fate, Self

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• It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Upset, Blame Someone, Financial

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• I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people's standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Blessed, Destiny

  "Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story". Book by A. E. Hotchner, 1979.

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• 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

  Encouragement, Opportunity, Color

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset”, p.68, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's no use blaming anyone now.

  Ned Kelly

  Entrepreneur, Use

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