Top 78 Self Blaming Quotes
#1. I know that if I am to move forward like the professional that I am, I must first see the past with mature eyes. And that means acknowledging that others have caused all my problems and blaming them for it.
Stephan Pastis
#2. One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.
Mary J. Blige
#3. The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.
Patricia Ireland
#4. Be so strong that no one can ignore you. By blaming others you never win, but you do lose to your conscience again and again.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind
Sri Chinmoy
#6. Fascism offered false solutions, simplistically blaming groups such as Jews and Communists for complex problems such as unemployment and crime.
Ken Follett
#7. I can go through life as a victim, blaming others for my misfortunes, and experiencing frustration over my condition. Or I can choose to be an active agent and do what I can do to bring about a positive change in my life.
Tal Ben-Shahar
#8. To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and blessed by God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#9. Traffic will not yield to our will, neither will global finances, the environment, political rhetoric, nor people in general. There is no way to solve the problem of stress through blaming environmental factors.
Gudjon Bergmann
#10. Because blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.
James Redfield
#11. Until you stop blaming and become positively self-critical you are not going to move forward.
Bryant McGill
#12. There you are; human nature in action, wrongdoers, blaming everybody but themselves. We are all like that.
Dale Carnegie
#13. Abandon the idea that you will forever be the victim of the things that have happened to you. Choose to be a victor.
Seth Adam Smith
#14. My ego mind - my own self-hatred masquerading as self-love - would point me always in the direction of fear, luring me toward the blaming thought, the attack or defense, the perception of guilt in myself or others.
Marianne Williamson
#15. Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.
Gloria Steinem
#16. The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault and blaming herself at all was useless. She would eventually try to believe this, as soon as she was behind her locked bedroom door.
Thomm Quackenbush
#17. The world is on fire with hate- everyone is blaming one another saying that religion is responsible for it!
In all honesty, hate has no fate.
But greed does it needs money, its faith.
Zarina Bibi
#18. 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
#19. What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.
Kevin Costner
#20. If we always think the other guy is the reason for our lack of success, then it's time to start planning ways to lift ourselves up, rather than planning ways to take him down.
Charles F. Glassman
#21. I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.
Lisa Unger
#22. Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.
Julian Baggini
#23. We found a book called Alexander, about a boy who confesses all his misdeeds to his father by blaming them on an imaginary red-and-green striped horse. Alexander was a pretty bad horse today. Whatever we can't hold, we hang onto a hook that will hold it.
Leslie Jamison
#24. Illiteracy is a form of slavery!" he would cry. "We can't waste time blaming anyone. We need to become obsessed with teaching people to read!
John Corcoran
#25. From my new release, Cry for Me.
This is Bryen talking.
"Stop it, T! I knew; my God I predicted you would do this! Start blaming yourself for the sins of my sick brother. He's left a stench of rottenness from here to Illinois!
Toni Mariani
#26. Our fate and destiny is in our hands. Blaming others for our failures is wrong because we can independently choose our circumstances. Wake up, smell the coffee and roll up your sleeves.
Boniface Kamau Zablon
#28. A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.
Gloria Steinem
#29. The media - and I'm not blaming them - obviously like to seize on the differences between people and, sure, there are some senior members of the government who are in a slightly different philosophical space to mine. But do not underestimate the substantial single-mindedness of this government.
Tony Abbott
#30. Tis true my form is something odd But blaming me is blaming God Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. If I could reach from pole to pole Or grasp the ocean with a span I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the man.
Isaac Watts
#31. 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
#32. This is a book about lost faith and blaming God when He allows bad things to happen to good people. But, it is also about the wounds we carry around with us when we fail to make a diiference when a difference was needed, whether real or perceived. But there is hope for us all! We are NOT alone!
Norman Whaler
#33. But here's something I bet you already know, deep down. It's your brain that's hurting, and blaming it on your leg. Brains are crafty that way.
Stephen King
#34. Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.
Seth Godin
#35. Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself..
Robin Sharma
#36. Blaming things on the past does not make them better.
Nelson Mandela
#37. You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.
Homer Simpson
Matt Groening
#38. 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
#39. People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!
Ward Churchill
#40. Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.
Richard Paul Evans
#41. Your first step in taking responsibility is to quit blaming others and quit blaming the world. You must accept that opportunity is everywhere. Opportunity is all the time. It does not disappear in the difficult times, in fact it's even greater.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#42. It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art of blaming the agency for their own failures. I seize the earliest opportunity to assume the blame.
David Ogilvy
#43. If only one day,
their worlds could meet,
just halfway.
She would outplay,
the distance rest,
blaming the roads,
led her astray.
But only if,
they could meet,
just halfway.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#44. Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.
Zig Ziglar
#45. The mistake the two of us made,' I said, 'was that we skimped the foreplay. I'm not blaming you, it was as much my fault as yours, but it was a fault nonetheless.
J.M. Coetzee
#46. Stop blaming others for the pains and sufferings you have. They are because of you, your karma, and your own disposition.
Girdhar Joshi
#47. I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.
Frederick Lenz
#48. There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.
John Miller
#49. There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.
Samuel Beckett
#50. Blaming some deity for your own hate seems pretty messed up to me.
Laurent Linn
#51. People often vented their rage on those who were the victims of their neglect because they were in truth blaming themselves.
Jean Plaidy
#52. What's always right?" "Kindness," Pitt answered with certainty. "Keeping your promises. Not giving up just because it gets hard. Owning up to your mistakes, and not blaming other people even if you would get away with it.
Anne Perry
#53. It's no use blaming anyone now.
Ned Kelly
#54. Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming.
Byron Katie
#55. Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?
Brandon Sanderson
#56. Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you.
Bobby Darnell
#57. I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.
Peter Benchley
#58. Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.
Steve Maraboli
#59. Blaming others for your low self-esteem, for your lack of money, for being overweight, or for feeling bad, is NOT going to make your life better. Take responsibility. Work on it. The choice is yours.
Maddy Malhotra
#60. Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.
Shannon L. Alder
#61. You know -" Bailey pulled her aside "-you're stoning yourself. You have to stop doing that and remember what happened when those people wanted to stone that girl. Jesus said for the one who hadn't sinned to cast the first stone. But you're saving people the trouble by stoning yourself.
Brenda Minton
#62. Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.
Stephen Richards
#63. Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
Eckhart Tolle
#64. 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
#65. Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.
Miguel Syjuco
#66. Check yourself often and correct your faults. Quit blaming others. Take responsibility for your own life. That's the only way you can grow!
Mufti Ismail Menk
#67. It's time to care; it's time to take responsibility; it's time to lead; it's time for a change; it's time to be true to our greatest self; it's time to stop blaming others.
Steve Maraboli
#68. True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs.
Shannon L. Alder
#69. It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same
Irvine Welsh
#70. 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
#71. It is not uncommon for someone to be a self-saboteur and compound that by also having a victim mentality. It is as though they are holding their own breath and then blaming others for their inability to breathe. If they can break free from this cycle, everything in their life changes for the better.
Steve Maraboli
#72. It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults.
Auliq Ice
#73. 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
#74. Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.
LZ Granderson
#75. When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
Pat Conroy
#76. A lot of Christians are blaming the devil for their own self-inflicted wounds.
Joyce Meyer
#77. Stop competing, stop judging, stop comparing, stop blaming and better you, for you.
Turcois Ominek
#78. Everyone on the Internet is talking about television and everyone on television is talking about the Internet. The whole damn thing is a self-licking ice cream cone and you're blaming me?
Daniel Suarez
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