Many Survivors blame themselves for the abuse and continue to feel responsible and guilty for anything bad that happens to them or to other people they know. Survivors often feel bad about themselves and different...

If a player won’t shoulder responsibility, he won’t work on his weaknesses, which means he won’t improve. He’ll be constantly on the prowl for a fall guy or a scapegoat, and his teammates becomes epidemic.

There is a lot of blame to spread around.

Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can’t wear her smiling face to the platform. You’ve got to put that smile on your...

All my failures as a human being I blame on my father. Life is about accepting responsibility, and it’s time my father started being held accountable for my deficiencies.

You can fail many times, but you’re not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.

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...

Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under pressure from social workers and therapists, produce false allegations of ‘paedophile rings’, ‘cult...

Results of two independent factor analyses of the survey responses of more than 2000 English and American citizens parallel these findings (19,33):- fear and exclusion: persons with severe mental illness should be feared and, therefore,...

Inevitability is a comfortable escape for people who don’t care for the pain that comes with truth. They convince themselves that they had no hand or say in the matter, that whatever happened could not...

Perfectionist parents seem to operate under the illusion that if they can just get their children to be perfect, they will be a perfect family. They put the burden of stability on the child to...

Placing blame was easier than adding up the mounting figures of what he’d lost.

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone’s malignity. When prices rise, it is due to the profiteer; when wages fall, it is due to the capitalist. Why the capitalist is ineffective when...

You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are.

Stop the blame game; you can’t win it! All fans of blame are defeated in every way… Don’t join them!

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

The weakest nations always blame others for their failures.

trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he’s blamed himself for introducing...

…it’s always somebody’s fault – I blame you for my helpless love – do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me…

The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.

We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams.

You can’t blame this on one person. Everybody wants to say it’s this person or that person. It’s a combination of a lot of things and some you can fix hopefully in the short term...

…failure promotes success only if you actually take the time to analyze your mistakes..” “Failure has to be separated from fault, and for many people that requires a bit of deprogramming, as we learn early...

Some victims do need to “blame” themselves and take responsibility.

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

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

We go to the past to lay the blame – since the past can’t argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

I’m the sort of guy who will accept blame, if it means being singled out as honest and honorable, and there’s a chance I’ll be rewarded.

So something that never should have happened did, all because of my thoughts and actions. A clear-cut cause-and-effect relationship. I was the one who caused it, and I should probably get the death penalty. Or...

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...

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. and when we imply that victims bring on their own fates – whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just...

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don’t blame them.

To fundamentally solve a problem, we must understand it’s cause. In that I mean the chain of actions or circumstances that led to the problem–rather than only the immediate cause, which serves only to place...

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

All the Debbies in the world are too big to be little. Makes me wish I were just two inches taller, you know? I blame my dad—or the mailman. Not sure yet. I get the...

If relations worsen, China should take the blame because they have ignored all our calls for improving ties.

I hear the word in the hallover and over again.Suicide.Suicide.Suicide.Did he or didn’t he?Everyone’s got a guess.Still no one knows for sure, except Gabe, but he’s not talking. Why does it even matter? He’s gone....

we choose for our selves what’s right or wrong… but when we make mistakes we blame someone else(parents)

Although stigmatizing attitudes are not limited to mental illness, the public seems to disapprove persons with psychiatric disabilities significantly more than persons with related conditions such as physical illness (34-36). Severe mental illness has been...

We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who’s right and who’s wrong. We do that with the people who...

I started wondering if God really existed. The world seemed too empty and lonely for there to be a God in it. But I figured he must exist because I kept blaming everything on him.

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

Blame is the lie by which we convince ourselves that we are victims. It is the lie that robs us of our serenity, our generosity, our confidence, an our delight in life . . ....

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make...

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

With the interconnectedness of it all, the world is more fluid than ever. I blame it on the rain. Milli Vanilli was ahead of their time.

I’m happy to place the lion’s share of the blame for this on FEMA and the feds. But I think a substantial dollop of the blame goes to the state and local level, and he...