Blame Someone Else Quotes

#1. Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

Brian Tracy

#2. Blame someone else, that's always your first instinct. And if you can't blame someone else, then start claiming the problem isn't a problem anyway. Rewrite the rules, shift the goalposts.

Julian Barnes

#3. A complete acceptance of personal responsibility is not optional. Whenever you find yourself putting responsibility outside of you, stop and remind yourself that you are responsible, especially when it is easy to blame someone else.

Malti Bhojwani

#4. Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

Laozi

#5. When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Joe Strummer

#6. Blame someone else and get on with your life.

Alan Woods

#7. I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility.

William J. Clinton

#8. We're taught as young kids Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He didn't just try to blame someone else.

Mark Foley

#9. It is not suffering as such that makes someone appreciate love, it is only when suffering pierces our vanity - which happens when we do not blame someone else for our pain - that it awakens a deeper respect for love.

John Armstrong

#10. I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

Susana Martinez

#11. In religion, the ego manifests as the devil. And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else.

Deepak Chopra

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

Robert Kiyosaki

#13. Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.

Larry Winget

#14. It is always so much easier to blame someone else rather than accepting responsibility for your experiences.

Iyanla Vanzant

#15. An entrepreneur's ability to find strength when others want to run, hide, quit, or blame someone else for their failures.

Donald J. Trump

#16. To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#17. When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#18. 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.

Paulo Coelho

#19. One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.

Iyanla Vanzant

#20. It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

Paulo Coelho

#21. We choose for our selves what's right or wrong ... but when we make mistakes we blame someone else(parents)

Meena Khan

#22. The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.

Mark V. Hurd

#23. If at first you don't succeed, blame someone else and hide behind a bush.

Peter James West

#24. Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.

Julia Quinn

#25. Never blame someone else for your problem. You are your problem.

Debasish Mridha

#26. Time has a way of making me realize that we can either lay the blamer our problems on someone else, letting that be an excuse for why our life isn't turning out the way we want it, or we can take the blame upon ourselves and let the responsibility for any change that should happen be on us.

Rory Feek

#27. If you think everything is someone else's fault, you'd be wrong. If you think everything is your fault, you're also wrong. Assigning blame can keep you stuck in the problem. Move on to solutions.

Sue Fitzmaurice

#28. People make babies. People make the rules. And then people make up gods so they have someone else to blame when things don't go right." "No,

R. Lee Smith

#29. When prayer seems to be unanswered, beware of trying to place the blame on someone else. That is always a trap of Satan. When you seem to have no answer, there is always a reason - God uses these times to give you deep personal instruction, and it is not for anyone else but you.

Oswald Chambers

#30. Some people live their lives being perpetual victims and finger pointers. To anyone who points a finger at someone else and lays all the blame at their feet instead of taking responsibility for their own behavior, I would say, I see that finger and you know where you can put it?

Donna Lynn Hope

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

John C. Maxwell

#32. Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.

Jane Horrocks

#33. A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

J. Paul Getty

#34. You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

Action Bronson

#35. Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#36. You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame.

Ben Harper

#37. You want an excuse for your failure and so you found someone to blame. If you survived, you would always be dirt, ground under someone else's boot.

Ilona Andrews

#38. Your choice is your choice and you need to accept what happens, not shift the blame to someone else if it doesn't turn out your way.

S.A. Tawks

#39. The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems.

Jim Goad

#40. We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can blame them. That's not good, either.

Serj Tankian

#41. The public is blaming the city officials, who in turn have to find someone else to blame. It's the nature of the beast. If the police, the politicians, can pass the buck on down the line, they will.

Patricia Cornwell

#42. Over the course of my career as both an actress and an author, I have met many wanna-bes. I distinguish the wannas from the gonnas because the WBs all think someone else is to blame for their problems ... By contrast, GBs say: 'What? There's no door here? I'll build one.

K Callan

#43. How easy it is to do wrong when there is someone else to blame.

Jenny Lloyd

#44. You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

Bum Phillips

#45. If we can ignore an issue long enough and distance ourselves from it far enough, we can actually make it look as if it belongs to someone else altogether.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#46. I'm not arguing. I just think that it's pathetic that creeps always have to have someone else to blame.

Stieg Larsson

#47. The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

Lenny Wilkens

#48. When I left, they were stuck with the burden of finding someone else to blame for their life ... Pointing their anger everywhere, but never looking in the mirror ... Continuing the cycle that led to their misery.

Steve Maraboli

#49. It's so much easier having someone else to blame when things go where they shouldn't.

Colleen Hoover

#50. A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.

Dick Vitale

#51. I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me.

Ernest Borgnine

#52. She had seen behind the obvious truth
that Mumbai was a hive of hope and ambition
to a profitable corollary. Mumbai was a place of festering grievance and ambient envy. Was there a soul in this enriching, unequal city who didn't blame his dissatisfaction on someone else?

Katherine Boo

#53. Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

Byron Katie

#54. I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.

Shelby Foote

#55. Everything in the world that happens to you may be someone else's doing; I'll grant you that. But what you do with it, how you react to it, what you make of yourself in the midst of it all - that's totally you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#56. Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Walter Kirn

#57. If the hour comes, and there's no-one to beg or blame but yourself, you learn that what we have in the end is just a handful more than what was born in us. That unique handful, what we add to what we are, is the only story of us that isn't told by someone else.

Gregory David Roberts

#58. When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.

Malcolm Forbes

#59. There's no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It's always someone else's fault. Usually people just blame the victim.

Meg Cabot

#60. We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

Donald Miller

#61. You can't blame your crimes on someone else; they're your own responsibility.

Kanae Minato

#62. As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

Robert Kiyosaki

#63. The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

Robert Bloch

#64. A victim is someone who blames it all on someone else. Why give all the power to someone else and leave yourself powerless?

Christina Moss

#65. We find our own truth serums. we confess willingly, but only if we are able to blame it on something or someone else.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#66. We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.

Nora Roberts

#67. Blame is the dumbest thing a person can do. It always puts the control in someone else's hands. I'm always responsible for what happens to me and therefore I can change it.

Sarah Noffke

#68. If you take responsibility and blame yourself, you have the power to change things. But if you put responsibility on someone else, then you are giving them the power to decide your fate.

Deja King

#69. She wants to be someone else, somewhere else, and I can't blame her.

Anna Quindlen

#70. When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it.

Anne McCaffrey

#71. THEO: You should walk a fucking mile before you judge a situation. You should put yourself in someone else's shoes before you blame, or judge, or pity. It takes a long time to wear down someone's confidence, and it takes much more strength of will to walk away than it does to take another punch.

Con Riley

#72. Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else?

Hilary Grossman

#73. When you grow as old as I am you can't any longer say this was someone's fault, and that was someone else's. It isn't so clear when you take a long view. Blame seems to lie everywhere. Or nowhere. Who can say where unhappiness begins?

Joan G. Robinson

#74. Never blame what you are on what someone else is.

Wes Fesler

#75. Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Anita Brookner

#76. Everybody wants to be someone else," he says "Do you blame them?" he asks.

Lissa Price

#77. If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage.

Marcus Aurelius

#78. I paved the path to the very place I don't want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn't put me any place else.

Craig D. Lounsbrough