Quotes About Blaming Someone Else

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

Bum Phillips

#2. Life is about decisions, so quit blaming someone else for the bad choices you make.

Karen Beaudin

#3. The gods have been kicking us around for a long time. When do we say enough?'
'And in their absence, High Fist, will we manage things any better?'
'No,' Paran said, walking past him 'but at least then we won't have the option of blaming someone else.

Steven Erikson

#4. 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

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

John Wooden

#6. I reckon that blaming people fixes nothing. You're the only person who is going to sort you out. No-one else really can - or really cares, enough. That's what Nepalis know - better than anyone. That's our Western disease. Don't take responsibility. Take on a lawyer!

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#7. Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.

Deepak Chopra

#8. 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

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

John Wooden

#10. If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.

Wayne Dyer

#11. I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.

Joyce Meyer

#12. Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.

L. Ron Hubbard

#13. Taking responsibility means never blaming anyone else for anything you are being, doing, having, or feeling.

Susan Jeffers

#14. 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

#15. We must understand how we responded to formative trauma and how that response is perpetuated today. Otherwise, we will remain stuck in self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, all the while blaming them on someone else.

Russell Willingham

#16. I learned that the problems that we have are not solved by blaming somebody else, and that our hope is not in who governs us as a nation. It's not in Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or Ron Paul. Our hope is in the power of God and his gospel working in the hearts of people.

Kirk Cameron

#17. You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are.

Habeeb Akande

#18. You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

Oprah Winfrey

#19. 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

#20. And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.

Charles Kettering

#21. 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

#22. It forced me to realise that I'd been blaming you for not being flawless. And none of us is flawless.' Another sigh. 'I was so angry with myself for what happened to Michael and Lucy that I had to turn my anger somewhere else and you were the easiest target.

Val McDermid

#23. Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

Kevin Bacon

#24. If you want to wallow in self pity, then do so. Just admit that you are where you want to be. Don't be blaming everyone else for you being there because you are tough enough to crawl out of it.

Carolyn Brown

#25. The trouble with most problem-solving books for parents is that they start with the idea that the child has a problem. Then they try to tell us how to fix the child, or else, after blaming the parent, they suggest how we can fix ourselves.

Polly Berrien Berends

#26. Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about.

Joyce Meyer

#27. You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying.

John Burroughs

#28. Let's stop blaming our unbelief on the pastor we once had, on our childhood, on circumstances, or on anything else. There is no excuse for us not to believe in the Lord.

Jim Cymbala

#29. Only a complete asshole would keep repeating the same old mistakes and blaming it on something else. Hell, we have all had it hard. It may not seem like it,

Sister Souljah

#30. 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