BLAME QUOTES

quotations about blame

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There's nothing kills a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

GEORGE ELIOT

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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

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Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.

BRENÉ BROWN

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Blame is the number one recipe for disaster in your home! You will not heal if you leave that word in your vocabulary.

PATRICK T. GORMAN

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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.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

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You made me cry,
when you said goodbye
Ain't that a shame
My tears fell like rain
Ain't that a shame
You're the one to blame

FATS DOMINO

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Blame is the granddaddy of the victim behaviors. You cannot address problems until you stop blaming others or yourself. Blame is the opposite of problem solving, even when the content of the blame is justifiable. Blame is the essence of the victim experience, and this experience is the basis of immature social behaviors. When you feel like a victim, you pass off responsibility to others for solving your problems or you attempt to escape.

JAMES R. BAUGH

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One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

P.J. O'ROURKE

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Blame is not productive. Blame disguises and conceals. Blame alienates and separates. Blame is the killer of community, cooperation, and collaboration.

PETER ROUSE

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Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They are blind justice holding her scales, and in the long run they'll tip evenly for the novice and the skilled alike.

LOU KRIEGER

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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers -- you can blame anyone, but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you want to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?

KATHARINE HEPBURN

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The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.

SCOTT ADAMS

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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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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.

EPICTETUS

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

GEORGE ELIOT

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There's enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is.

LISA SAMSON

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You have no one to blame but your spouse.

AMERICAN PROVERB

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A bad workman always blames his tools.

ENGLISH PROVERB

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We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who are closest to us and we do it with political systems, with all kinds of things that we don't like about our associates or our society. It is a very common, ancient, well-perfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others. Blaming is a way to protect our hearts, to try to protect what is soft and open and tender in ourselves. Rather than own that pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground.

PEMA CHODRON

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You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.

BILL CLINTON

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