Blame Quotes

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. (Livy)
Archery teaches us how to seek the truth. When the shooter misses, he does not blame others, but looks for the fault in himself. View quote
Confucius
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. View quote
Erica Jong
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake. View quote
Akio Morita
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. View quote
Nikolai Gogol
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. View quote
Albert Ellis
The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank. View quote
Robert Fogel
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the draught. View quote
Dwight Morrow
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. (Joseph Campbell)
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame? View quote
Bob Dylan
In short, luck's always to blame. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
You can't blame gravity for falling in love. View quote
Albert Einstein
I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on. View quote
Oscar Levant
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. (John F. Kennedy)
Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources. View quote
Yvon Chouinard
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. View quote
William James
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski