You Can't Blame Others Quotes

#1. After a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.

Nicholas Sparks

#2. Antony said to Poemen, 'Our great work is to lay the blame for our sins upon ourselves before God, and to expect to be tempted to our last breath.

Benedicta Ward

#3. If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

Dan Castellaneta

#4. Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

#5. 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

#6. Blame is for God and small children.

Dustin Hoffman

#7. One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#8. She'd betrayed her country because she'd believed it was the right thing to do. Yet would she have done this, if not for Arin?
He knew none of it. Had never asked for it. Kestrel had made her own choices. It was unfair to blame him.
But she wanted to.

Marie Rutkoski

#9. A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

Warren Farrell

#10. Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.

Pema Chodron

#11. Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I was still attached to the same world that other men lived in.

Paul Auster

#12. The story of Genesis could only be a poorly written misconception that put needless blame on women. Estella

Ira Smith

#13. In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.

Mary Stewart

#15. Why did you act in this way, you pitiable ones? Make a bow of repentance, recognize your fault, be sorry for your nakedness. Neither one of them could blame himself, neither of them had the least bit of humility.

Dorotheus Of Gaza

#16. When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything ... And all rites are of this kind.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#17. When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.

John F. Kennedy

#18. Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#19. Nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are ...

Charlotte Bronte

#20. You spend months barely acknowledging someone's existence and then BOOM, you're emotionally addicted to her. Science would probably blame it on chemicals, genetics or something equally logical, but it didn't feel like anything logical

C.K. Kelly Martin

#21. Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures.

Patrick Ness

#22. We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

Warren Farrell

#23. The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.

Steve Maraboli

#24. Who is this vague "they" we blame for so many of our problems? "They" is the obscure party we use as our whipping boy to camouflage the fact that we - you and I and other specific human beings just like us - have to start doing things differently. "They" can't fix anything. We can.

Price Pritchett

#25. I cannot blame them, in truth, for desiring ... But they were like children, who have only just begun to grasp the idea of a thing. And like children, they had no notion of laboring to create, but only of having ... and no thought given to the cost, to others, of taking it.

Jacqueline Carey

#26. The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them.

Fred Savage

#27. We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the past. I hope that everybody will do well in the long run.

Jay Park

#28. Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.

Malcolm Forbes

#29. Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Meg Greenfield

#30. I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

Gloria Steinem

#31. No more excuses. I can't blame anything on my parents. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices.

Brad Pitt

#32. The door vibrated with the soft bump of Travis' forehead against the door. "I don't want you leave, but I wouldn't blame you if you did.

Jamie McGuire

#33. I don't blame him for being in love with her. I just wish, for her sake, she wasn't in love with him.

Tiffany Reisz

#34. It sounds so perfect. He's defending me because Carey would want him to. It's not about me. It never is, with these two boys. Blake lets me take the blame, and Carey uses me.

Corrine Jackson

#35. I am sorry for you with all my heart. But you cannot blame us, for you came to kill us if you could.

Richard Adams

#36. Mistakes,' he said with effort, 'are also important to me. I don't cross them out of my life, or memory. And I never blame others for them.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#37. But why should they blame her? They should blame the men who won't let her alone,

Jean M. Auel

#38. Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.

Moses Ibn Ezra

#39. The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

Amy Chua

#40. When you cease to blame your spous eand own the problem as yours, you are then empowered to make changes to solve your problem.

Henry Cloud

#41. It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

John Bolton

#42. The rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#43. One doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything ... nor ought one to blame others.

Charles Darwin

#44. I look up at Eric,sniffing "I tried to...and..."I shake my head.
"You tired to what?" asks Eric
"Kiss me," says Tobias. "And I rejected her,and she went running off like a five-year-old. there's really nothing to blame her for but stupidity.

Veronica Roth

#45. People today think ancient Egypt was ineffably cool. I blame this misconception on hieroglyphics and (to a lesser extent) on the Bangles.

Kevin Hearne

#46. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

#47. I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

Peter Garrett

#48. You can get past a mistake, but it's much harder to get past being a cruel person.

Jennifer Brown

#49. I've only myself to blame. It would be easy for me to blame others but I have to look at myself.

Craig Bellamy

#50. When we advance more confident claims and they fail to come to fruition, this constitutes much more powerful evidence against our hypothesis. We can't really blame anyone for losing faith when this occurs

Nate Silver

#51. Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

Bob Schieffer

#52. I even get tired performing standup, which is normally a low-impact exercise in futility but looks hard the way I do it. That's why I take a lot of breaks, often stopping in the middle of a joke to catch my breath, or blame the crowd for not laughing before the punchline.

Andy Kindler

#53. Many have blamed the gasoline shortages and long lines at filling stations in 1973 on the Arab Oil embargo of that year. However, the shortages and long lines began months before the Arab oil embargo, right after price controls were imposed.

Thomas Sowell

#54. CNN's Rick Sanchez said the Jews run CNN. Ah, so that's who we blame for Rick Sanchez.

Conan O'Brien

#55. It is your own bad strategies, not the unfair opponent, that are to blame for your failures. You are responsible for the good and bad in your life.

Robert Greene

#56. I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.

Mary J. Blige

#57. A dinery server behaving like a pureblood attracts trouble; trouble attracts blame; blame demands a scrapegoat.

David Mitchell

#58. The wizards were civilized men of considerable education and culture. When faced with being inadvertently marooned on a desert island they understood immediately that the first thing to do was place the blame

Terry Pratchett

#59. I had a funny feeling he was sizing up the situation and somehow I was to blame for his sleepy
albeit really,really nice
fondling.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#60. Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.

Fran Lebowitz

#61. If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

Epictetus

#62. I was the person, I think, who first said the evening of September 11 that we shouldn't hold this against the Arab community, the Muslim community. We should focus on the individuals and that groups that were involved and not participate in group blame.

Rudy Giuliani

#63. Kicking the proverbial can down the road only increases the size of the can.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#64. The only person I can count on is myself. It's up to me to create the life I want. I can't blame my parents or Scott or anyone else for the way things are.

Susane Colasanti

#65. It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

Maureen Forrester

#66. Perhaps we invented the gods so that we could put the blame on them. They gave us permission to eat flesh. They gave us permission to play with unclean things. It's not our fault, it's theirs. We're just their children.

J.M. Coetzee

#67. It is easy to look backward and cast blame on others, but more difficult to gaze ahead and take responsibility for your own decisions and your own future. - GRIFFIN HARKONNEN, final dispatch from Arrakis It

Brian Herbert

#68. No one will ever blame you for trying to get it right.

Lorii Myers

#69. So when they win, it's their hard work
And when they lose, it's their bad luck

Sanhita Baruah

#70. You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

Peter Capaldi

#71. Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becomes stagnant, and stagnant pain can have a compounding effect if left unchecked.

Romany Malco

#72. You've always got a choice. You have a choice now, and you certainly had a choice then. Don't blame them for the choices you made.

Nicole Williams

#73. I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything much to do with his corruption.
His personal motives were freedom and pleasure, and he misread them both.

Wallace Stegner

#74. Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority

Francois Du Toit

#75. Katie leaned forward conspiratorially. Oh, sweetie, I just said that because Alice is an old bag. You go after Devon. The man is fine. I don't blame you for changing your look for a shot at that. When the pool about you two gets going at Petie's Pub, I'm putting my money on you.

Susan Meier

#76. I like you but you mightn't feel the same way about me, and I wouldn't blame you. To save us both from any awkward moments I've figured out an easy way to do this. Nod if you're even slightly interested in getting to know me. Write a ten page explanation if you're not.

Bill Condon

#77. When everything goes wrong, it's better to remember
someone who is not going to question you or blame you for what
you have done. Not even offer some free advice.
That's the best thing about God.

Sheeja Jose

#78. When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States' policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#79. I always wanted to take the blame. I've always been apologetic for other people's faults.

Lindsay Lohan

#80. Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

Gerard K. O'Neill

#81. Blame is very tricky in that it seems like a way out when it is really a form of imprisonment.

Bryant McGill

#82. Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now
look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.

John Steinbeck

#83. No blame. No regrets. Gratitude and happiness in every direction.

J.T. Gillett

#84. I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

Chiang Kai-shek

#85. Pat Buchanan is so homo-phobic, he blames global warming on the AIDS quilt.

Dennis Miller

#86. 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

#87. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

Peter S. Jennison

#88. As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Simone Weil

#89. I don't blame you," Genevieve said. "Sunnyvale isn't exactly Paris.

Juliet Blackwell

#90. Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.

Timothy Noah

#91. BE GRATEFUL, FORGIVE PEOPLE, LOVE MORE, BLAME LESS AND BELIEVE THINGS WILL WORK OUT!

Andrew Matthews

#92. Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.

Ozzy Osbourne

#93. There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.

Zack De La Rocha

#94. If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches

Rainer Maria Rilke

#95. To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents

Maya Angelou

#96. I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy ... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.

Jonathan Winters

#97. Always blame the guy," she said.

Gena Showalter

#98. Until you stop blaming and become positively self-critical you are not going to move forward.

Bryant McGill

#99. You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#100. There are times when we can blame a situation on others, but we own our reactions to them. There comes a point where we are the ones responsible for our choices and excuses don't carry weight anymore.

Penelope Douglas