Top 100 Quotes About Own Fault
#1. [ ... ]but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.
Karin Slaughter
#2. My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.
Max Barry
#3. It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know who we are.
Teresa Of Avila
#5. On a good day, he was friend enough. On a bad day, running into his inadequacy was like tripping up the stairs. It hurt, but it felt like my own fault.
Rachel Hartman
#6. Pay attention, people! There's no excuse for making the same mistakes that others have made. If you do, it's your own fault and you should expect no sympathy, no compassion.
Donald Trump
#7. I think of sardines and their backbones. You can eat their backbones. The bones crumble between your teeth; one touch and they fall apart. This must be what my own backbone is like: hardly there at all. What is happening to me is my own fault, for not having more backbone.
Margaret Atwood
#8. Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it shrouds a vile deformed face Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name, Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.
George Wither
#9. If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.
Oprah Winfrey
#10. Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#11. Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#12. In The City of God Augustine says: "The will, therefore, is then truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. Such was it given us by God; and this being lost by its own fault, can only be restored by Him who was able at first to give it.
R.C. Sproul
#13. It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
Samuel Johnson
#14. It's your own fault for encouraging him ... , you know. Now he thinks he's a human being.
Neal of Queens cove
Tamora Pierce
#15. Suddenly I had this feeling, this absolute certainty, that I was never going to be able to let him go. It was as simple and as hard as that. I had clung to him like a barnacle all these years, and now I couldn't cut away. It was my own fault, really. I couldn't let go of Conrad.
Jenny Han
#16. They were setting off on an adventure, and Hornblower was only too conscious that it was his own fault.
C.S. Forester
#17. Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
Thomas A Kempis
#19. If a witch offers you her love,you should take it. If you don't it's your own fault if bad things happen to you ...
Philip Pullman
#20. How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all ... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, I was wrong.
B.C. Forbes
#21. I'm lost. And it's my own fault. It's about time I figured out that I can't ask people to keep me found.
Anne Sexton
#22. When we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.
George Sand
#23. Seeing the faults of others is indeed an echo of our own fault; the biggest fault is our own fault. That is known as the mad ego.
Dada Bhagwan
#24. When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.
Malcolm Forbes
#25. So why was his stomach tightening and twisting with every step up those stairs? Because hope was a dangerous thing. It said the failure would be his own fault alone.
Kelley Armstrong
#26. One's past is not one's destiny, and it is self-serving to pretend that it is. If henceforth I were miserable, it would be my own fault: and I vowed never to waste my substance on petty domestic conflict.
Theodore Dalrymple
#27. One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.
Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
#28. It was the kind of voice that made me want to confess my sins and admit that everything in my life was my own fault.
Seanan McGuire
#29. If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.
Jane Austen
#30. O, man! learn from the precept what you ought to do; learn from correction, that it is your own fault you have not the power; and learn in prayer, whence it is that you may receive the power.
John Calvin
#31. He had emerged from that crimson twilight into the common electric glare with a self-consciousness intensified to the pitch of agony. He was utterly miserable, and perhaps (her shining eyes accused him), perhaps it was his own fault.
Aldous Huxley
#32. Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#33. What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#34. If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.
J. Michael Straczynski
#35. I thought maybe I could just get away from everything. But you can't get away from a thing that's your own fault.
Sarah Zettel
#36. That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.
Don Young
#37. Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
Seneca The Younger
#38. This country provides opportunities. If you don't take advantage of them, it's your own fault.
Sam Huff
#39. People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.
Sydney J. Harris
#40. It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#41. If you're bored in New York, it's your own fault.
Myrna Loy
#42. To one's own fault, twas life's giving.
To one's understanding, twas his choosing.
Isabel Aanya Leigh
#43. Dilettantes,' Art3mis said. 'It's their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.
Ernest Cline
#44. Dancer nudged him in the shoulder. "I know, fella. She got me good. And it's my own fault." His horse poked him in the jaw in agreement.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#45. Meanwhile, for those of you on crowded public transport who chose not to say the words aloud, you'll feel no different, and that's your own fault because, as I say, you lack class and are assholes.
Alan Partridge
#46. Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.
Mae West
#47. I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.
Sienna Miller
#48. I was very stale at Fox. Much of it was my own fault. I was lazy and didn't fight for things I wanted to do at other times. Most of my stuff consisted of setup/punchline jokes to the camera - a very old-school approach. I was part of the establishment, I guess.
Frank Caliendo
#49. So I've come to the conclusion that it is thus my own fault when these people I have been talking about finally stop saying "Ah" and tell me it's a pity I always do such odd things.
Barbara Wright
#50. For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.
Leo Tolstoy
#51. I realized that it's my own fault that people take advantage of me. I should be around people who cherish my talents, my health, my time. I'm not a pawn for anyone's future business. I'm an artist. I deserve better than to be loyal to people who only believe in me because I make money.
Lady Gaga
#52. Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.
William Penn
#53. Everything is organized. If something is broken, I fix it. If something goes wrong, it's my own fault. If I have it, I send money to the family, and they can do with it what they want, and I won't depend on them, and they won't depend on me.
Barack Obama
#54. It is perhaps one's own fault, to see oneself drifting, rotting, in dishonour and horrible futility, and all the while knowing that somewhere within one there is the possibility of a decent human being.
George Orwell
#55. The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
Barbara Kingsolver
#56. If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault ... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.
Epictetus
#57. It's his own fault he doesn't like the things I remember, though.
Stephenie Meyer
#58. I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again. - Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#59. For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
William Penn
#60. Yet the notion that you're paid what you're "worth" is by now so deeply ingrained in the public consciousness that many who earn very little assume it's their own fault.
Robert B. Reich
#61. If he knew one thing about life, it was this: look out for yourself. No one else would do it for you. If you were cheated or tricked, it was your own fault, and a lesson best learned before the world devoured you.
Kelley Armstrong
#62. We need to reinvent itself
We make mistakes,
But to give others the blame of own fault
While we do not recognize own fault
and continue to blame others
Until then we can not succeed in life..!!
Shubham Singh
#63. Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own fault if he has not got sense enough to see which way the wind is blowing.
Patricia C. Wrede
#64. If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.
Epictetus
#65. No one suffers long, save by his own fault. If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him?
Michel De Montaigne
#67. They trained me for this. It's their own fault. They helped make their own doom.
Victoria Aveyard
#68. You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most ...
Claude Monet
#69. True. It's my own fault, I suppose. I shouldn't have married a man who is prettier than I am.
K.M. Shea
#70. Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they
wish to seem unusually pious.
Baruch Spinoza
#71. In places like this, it's hard to imagine that the world can be so ugly,' Thomas said.
'This is how it was meant to be,' Priya replied. 'The ugliness is our own fault.
Corban Addison
#72. Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. It's your own fault, Will. What did I tell you about walking?" "That I should leave it to the experts,
Jaymin Eve
#75. If you follow the rules, it's your own fault.
Marty Rubin
#77. He wouldn't hurt her. Never on purpose. Nev was going to hurt her accidentally, and when he did it would be her own fault.
Ruthie Knox
#78. An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.
William Castle
#79. The time of the actual enjoyment is short and swift, and made much shorter through their own fault. For they dash from one pleasure to another and cannot stay steady in one desire.
Seneca.
#80. I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.
Daniil Kharms
#81. I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with ... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.
Shane Warne
#82. We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed? ...
Swami Vivekananda
#83. What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten ... Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day.
Rob Ford
#84. I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.
Jane Austen
#85. It is your own fault, said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . .
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#86. He pulled back, staring at her in the dim carriage, his brows still knit. "Megs?"
Oh, right. She still hadn't told him. Well, it was his own fault; his mouth was simply delicious.
"I love you," she said, speaking clearly so that there might be no confusion.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#87. I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
Benjamin Britten
#88. When the soul, through its own fault ... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#89. It's your own fault for being so camera-ready, I tell Gale. If looks could kill.
Suzanne Collins
#90. I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#91. Their methods are your own fault. You make us work, you make us bleed, you make us die for your wars and factories and the little comforts you don't even notice, all because we are different. How can you expect us to let that stand?
Victoria Aveyard
#92. I regret that I cannot do my duty as a true modern, by cursing everybody who made me whatever I am. I am not clear about what that is; but I am pretty sure that most of it is my own fault.
G.K. Chesterton
#93. There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.
Robert Breault
#94. Light illuminates the path of humanity: it is our own fault if we go over the brink.
Aleister Crowley
#95. When the vision becomes right [correct], one sees only his own faults and when the vision is wrong [incorrect], he sees others at fault.
Dada Bhagwan
#96. This surely is a good rule: whenever you see a fault in any other man, or any other church, look for it in yourself and in your own church.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#97. The Queen drilled in her own mother's maxim that if you find something or somebody a bore, the fault lies in you.
Sally Bedell Smith
#98. Then I remembered that I had yet to learn, if I ever was to learn, how strongly people in love could feel. In any event, I was the last person in the world to judge anyone as foolishly impulsive, for this was my own greatest fault.
Madeleine Brent
#99. There can be no failure if there really is a Plan. Defeated you may be, but never through any fault of your own. To bow to a cosmic will is no shame. You are not a coward; you are a martyr.
Umberto Eco
#100. There's always someone society chooses not to see. There's always someone who is invisible through no fault of their own.
Mia Sheridan