Blame Quotations | Page 13

You can either blame everybody else or you can take a look at yourself and determine where you can improve.

Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.

You should never do anything wicked and lay it on your brother, when it is just as convenient to lay it on some other boy

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches

Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The hate of those ye guard.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.

When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

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

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

We changed with the times, so we can't blame the children for just joining the times without even having to change.

It was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me. Betty is to blame for it all. Whatever I am or have accomplished, I owe to Betty. I ain't got no sense. My wife made me what I am. In other words -- local girl makes good in the city -- makes good man.

How the mighty fall. It really is the final straw for this guy. Just when you think things can't get any worse, he holds his baby out of a window. It's actually quite unbelievable. I suppose he'll blame Sony for that, as well.

I don't talk about it. But when I was a little girl, my father was abusive when he drank and seemed to kind of like to bat me around a bit, ... I don't blame him at all. I know he was drunk when he did it. I know he didn't mean to do it.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

In short, luck's always to blame.

When the South has trouble with its Negroes when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.

Remember praise is more valuable than blame.

Blaming things on the past does not make them better.

We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

You cannot be loving when you are blaming. You cannot be loving when you are criticising. You cannot be loving when you are judging.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

If I condemn something, I do not understand it.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes

Nobody is a real loser-until they start blaming somebody else.

Losing does not make you a failure; it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure

Nobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else. My advice to you is don't fix the blame. Fix the problem.

Don't blame it on the sunshine. Don't blame it on the moonlight. Blame it on the boogie.

I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

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

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

Don't moan, don't whine, don't blame. Just get on with it.

You can't grow and learn if your focus is on finding someone else to blame instead of looking at your own shortcomings.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

Blame is safer than praise

Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.

It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.

Is God to blame for what I myself have done?

Let us blame none, let us blame our own Karma.

No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.

When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and will have to leave all when the call comes.

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us.

Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.

The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.

I love being backstage, or doing littler things like Blame Canada.

Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it.

You must send blame out of your life for any conditions of your life.

when we have blamed the wind we can blame love....

He is lifeless that is faultless.

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.