Blame is such a self-defeating choice. It renders one helpless, putting any solution well out of reach, for we rarely can change others. Consider this, a solution well within your reach, someone you can surely change: Yourself.

When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities.When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They’re less likely...

I don’t think I’m being harassed by little green stalkers. I don’t know what’s really going on, but I’d rather try to eliminate all rational excuses before blaming intergalactic monkeys from the fourth dimension who are somehow interested in this really boring town.

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.

Stop blaming and start aiming.

The directors are to blame for our elimination,

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice.

Many people experience the travesty of regret in their end days; the realization that nothing held them back, that nothing was in their way, that there is no one to blame, only themselves. Don’t just sit by waiting for your life to happen, make it happen! Don’t just hope your dreams will come alive, breathe...

Blame is the coward’s retreat.They think it frees them, but it confines them… Blame is also the coward’s warden.

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It’s the system and its limitations that are to blame.

No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.

It’s like a pro quarterback who wants to keep going. I don’t blame the dancers, but we do try to combat that.

It’s also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the… as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

Escape from reality. In some instances, dissociation induces people to imagine that they have some kind of mastery over intractable environmental difficulties. Dissociation is often implicated in magical thinking or self-induced trance states. This aspect of dissociation is frequently found in abuse survivors. It is not uncommon for abused children to engage in magical thinking...

This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It’s as if this girl has done something shameful, herself, by being murdered.

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and evil resulting from our...

You can’t blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don’t ask for it right off the bat.

Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.

Maybe your right. Maybe I should blame myself… Who the hell needs that?

Why shouldn’t Mom trust me, Dad” Why are you so determined to make me out to be the bad guy all the time?” I stared at the side of his face, willing him to make eye contact. He didn’t. “I’ve been doing really good late and you don’t even care.””Yet you still managed to get...

There’s enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is.

But I don’t blame you anymore, that’s too much pain to store…it left me half dead…inside my head. And boy looking back I see I’m not the girl I used to be. When I lost my mind, it saved my life.

It’s too easy to criticize a man when he’s out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else’s mistakes.

You can’t take the blame off of you, when naturally it takes two.

The weakest nations always blame others for their failures.

There are only do and don’t; can or can’t is just an excuse.

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

How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?

The passive voice could always be used to obscure blame.

How can God allow this to happen? How can our predecessors allow this to happen? How can YOU allow this to happen? We could all blame everyone else for the problems of the past that brought us the present, but that doesn’t do us any good. The past has already been written, and there’s nothing...

The only person to blame for your situation is you.

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

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

And honestly, we don’t know yet whether … we should blame the president, Ms. Lewinsky, Ms. Tripp, Judge Starr or the media — or all of them, to some extent.

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

I’ll take the blame for that. I should have let the clock run down more. It was a flop call on a team that was dead. I gave them life. He drew the charge, that’s what Mr. Crawford saw. It gave them momentum.

I’ll take the blame for that one. I got a little overzealous, I tried to get to the rack, and they got momentum from the charge.

The number I had for her didn’t work. But in this depression, could you blame it?

Why do women always do this? Why are they so eager to blame themselves when someone treats them like sh*t? A guy would take a cheese grater to his tongue before admitting he screwed up.

I only like bubble gum if it’s flavored like the bottom of my shoe. I once stepped on my stepdad, but he was dressed like a puddle so it’s not like I’m at fault.

Kill the blames and you will put your shames into blazing flames. Look for solutions, not problems!

What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own wickedness that brings them sufferings worse than any which destiny allots them.

Winner always make all the necessary adjustments because they possess the habit of taking full responsibility of their decisions and actions instead of looking for who to blame when things go wrong.

Jesus is the perfect name!He who put away his fame!And persecuted in shame!That you will never be the same!It’s because of you and I He came!Believe him or have yourself to blame!In the book of life, have your name!

Your downfall is a preparation for your up-rise. If you don’t know this secret, you will remain on the floor, blaming your legs instead of your head!

Recruiters are looking for reasons other than themselves. So they blame the pool.

I don’t think anyone in this locker room solely puts the blame on Kyle Orton. As a defense, we didn’t make any plays. I gave up 14 points. I think the blame is on ourselves, the team, not just one particular person.

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.