BLAME QUOTES

quotations about blame

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

GEORGE ELIOT

Silas Marner


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

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook K", Aphorisms


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

Letters to a Young Poet


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

More Hold'em Excellence


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

Rolling Stone, Nov. 1989


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

The Gifts of Imperfection


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

The Unbroken Home


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

"Ain't That a Shame"


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

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends


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

PETER ROUSE

Every Relationship Matters


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

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul


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

The Enchiridion


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

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


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

SCOTT ADAMS

Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland


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

Six Hidden Motives That Defeat Your Goal


A bad workman always blames his tools.

ENGLISH PROVERB


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

LISA SAMSON

Hollywood Nobody


You have no one to blame but your spouse.

AMERICAN PROVERB


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

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times


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

BILL CLINTON

speech at Campus Progress National Student Conference, July 13, 2005