Blame Quotes - Page 9

• If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.

  Moby

  Country, Jobs, Cynical

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• We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.

  Frans de Waal

  Credit

  Frans de Waal (2006). “Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are”, p.11, Penguin

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• Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free.

  Tian Dayton

  Responsibility, Trouble

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• Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.

  Mason Cooley

  Congratulations, Self

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• The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Moments, Resolve

  "On Grief And Reason: Essays". Book by Joseph Brodsky, 1995.

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• When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Mind, Problem, Checks

  Thubten Yeshe, Lama Yeshe, Josh Bartok, Nicholas Ribush (2011). “When the Chocolate Runs Out”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't try to blame the pain on anyone. Blaming others won't erase the pain.

  Hyde

  Pain, Trying, Blaming Others

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• Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

  James Redfield

  Responsibility, Way, Behavior

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• Stupid cupid you're a real mean guy, I'd like to pick your wings so you can't fly, I am in love and it's a crying shame, and I know that you're the one to blame, hey, hey set me free, stupid cupid, stop picking on me.

  Mandy Moore

  Stupid, Real, Fall

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• While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.

  Andrew Solomon

  Motivation, Humility, Writing

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.

  Tony DiCicco

  Sports, Responsibility, Empowering

  Tony Dicicco, Colleen Hacker, Charles Salzberg (2003). “Catch Them Being Good: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls”, p.123, Penguin

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• How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us. If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.

  Elif Safak

  Mean, Reflection, Compassion

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• When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.

  Stephen Covey

  Attitude, Freedom, Mistake

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• As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.

  Roland Barthes

  Crazy, Jealous, Men

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• Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.

  Emily Giffin

  Hate, Heart, Mad

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.52, Macmillan

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• The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.

  Herbert Hoover

  Mistake, Men, Doctors

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . . . ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise.

  Price Pritchett

  Giving Up, Exercise, Individuality

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• It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

  Homer

  Fate, Insightful, Hardship

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• There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.

  George Muller

  Self, World, Taste

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• Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

  Richard L. Gordon

  Political, Firsts, Problem

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• Always blame conditions, not men

  Frank Norris

  Men, Conditions

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• I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him.

  Woody Hayes

  Mistake, Taken, Men

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• The cause of anger lies in our thinking - in thoughts of blame and judgment.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Lying, Communication, Thinking

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• You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

  Lise Meitner

  War, Science, Discovery

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• You guys just here to blame someone. You never look yourselves in the mirror, eh? You're always good. You never make the mistakes. Your articles are always perfect. In reality, what have you done for this city? If you ask yourself, what have you done besides only criticize? Not much.

  Ilya Bryzgalov

  Mistake, Hockey, Reality

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