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.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Empowerment is never about blame; it is about taking personal responsibility.

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

Brighten the corner where you are. You don’t blame God for placing you in a dark corner… You rather have to thank him for giving you the light to make it bright!

She had heard it was easy to blame others for one’s own failures. But that wasn’t exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened–hard to live with 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 led the soldiers right to my family’s door. You’re the reason they’re dead.

When the devil wants to punish his worshippers, he uses the trick of karma.

there’s plenty of blame to go around.

If you think everything is someone else’s fault, you’d be wrong. If you think everything is your fault, you’re also wrong. Assigning blame can keep you stuck in the problem. Move on to solutions.

Free yourself from the need to blame others. There are two reasons that you are where you are right now; action or inaction.

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a...

Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you’re responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the...

Shouldering the blame for failure and conferring credit where it is due comes rarely to most.

Some people’s blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

People always wanted someone to blame, didn’t they?

It takes a lot of commitment to sit on a committee. Only the most courageous could boldly command all that power, yet remain detached from any personal blame.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

Blaming the woman for the loss of a child is like blaming the soldier for the loss of his life in battle.

There may be some blame on both sides. Randy may have stepped over the line, and Fieldin may have gotten carried away too quickly. But when you see the umpire take off his mask, you...

There is no fault, only responsibility.

Nico wasn’t sure whether to kick himself or Will Solace. If he hadn’t been so distracted bickering with the son of Apollo, he would never have allowed the enemy to get so close.

I do not blame himfor not knowing the gentleness of my soul.When I only showed him,how violently I loved.

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...