We hold onto our flaws because they are insurance for our failures. Every fear serves a purpose. When we cling to unhelpful beliefs and old fears, we can blame failure on them. Growth requires the...

If you do not like your results in a particular area it is rarely your intellect that deserves the blame, but rather where you have directed your intellect. Results are purchased by how you spend...

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...

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is made of the world only through relationship between action and reaction, symptom and...

The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues of blame and responsibility. Historically, doctors have highlighted predisposing vulnerability factors for developing PTSD, at the expense of recognizing the reality...

I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I mess up the laundry, don’t answer my phone and blame the world when...

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...

If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.

You blame me for this, don’t you?” he says.”I don’t need to. You’re doing a better job.

Don’t call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!

Unless society came out past Flat Rock Crossroads, kept on past Booker T. High School, hung two rights, a left, turned in on Milk Farm Road and found Roland plowing a tobacco field, jerked him...

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)

The longer you blame the mirror, the longer you throw away the power to change what it is reflecting.

Batterers aren’t renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts.

With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically. He or she may begin to believe that...

When you blame others you are effectively proclaiming that you are only response to stimuli.

Never blame someone else for your problem. You are your problem.

People may advice you, guide you and evaluate what you do, but bear in mind they can’t think for you. You don’t blame people for not thinking for you; blame yourself for depending on them...

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.

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...

He’s right. I can’t deny it. I am the reason Day lost everything that matters to him.

He’s a great kid. He reminds me of [ Vladimir Guerrero ]. I don’t blame him for any of this stuff. We have to understand the circumstances. He was pretty much forced to go to...

You shouldn’t blame others for the conditions you endure; we each have the freedom to follow which path we desire in life.

I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, his father simply couldn’t stand the sight of sickness and especially his own son’s sickness,...

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

We did not make ourselves, nor did we fashion a world that could not work without pain, and great pain at that, with a little pleasure, very little, to string us along–a world where all...

Everybody is pointing the finger. You cannot put all the blame on (Nee). We have to take some of the blame.

Our response has been, ‘Well, let’s then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.’ That hasn’t happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

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?

I called his broken promise heartbreaking, and he called it growing up. Oh, that’s mature—blame it on maturity.

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.

There has to be blame and there has to be reasons and there has to be answers and if nobody can adequately accept the blame and give a sufficient reason and provide an answer, the...

If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame...

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...

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one’s own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

My point,” Jason said, “is that blaming each other isn’t going to solve anything. That’s how the Romans and the Greeks got divided in the first place.

As the man left and became gone the fault wailed after him, heartbroken. Yelling back at him all the ways he and it belonged to one another.

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

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn’t do another film for two to three years, and I don’t blame it on anybody...

So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen...

Do not rush to judge someone unless his/her fruits reveal the truth. However, don’t forget; mostly, it’s not the fault of the tree to produce bitter fruits. Sometimes, the soil determines that; blame the source!...

Sometimes I just want to paint the words “It’s my fault” across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.

Riots are started by the police and blamed on dissidents.

Don’t try to impress a loser because If one is not happy about the things happening in their life, one cannot be happy about the things happening in someone else’s life.

Blame has no purpose, and it is a lousy teacher.

I don’t blame him for getting loud. We let this one slip by.

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...

Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she should have never left me here, where her friends might look to me for...

I’m starting to understand that attempting to be perfect has been the goal of my life. Our lives. Attempting to be this fault-free, smiling person in this loving, happy family that fits so perfectly in...