Blaming Quotes

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. (Lionel Trilling)
People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Tis true, my form is something odd but blaming me, is blaming God, Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. View quote
Joseph Merrick
You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes. View quote
John Wooden
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. [Sarcastically] Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all! View quote
Ward Churchill
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger. View quote
Marshall B. Rosenberg
You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on." Homer Simpson. View quote
Matt Groening
Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being grateful. If you are complaining, you are not being grateful. View quote
Rhonda Byrne
I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him... to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good... (Brian Jacques)
Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be. View quote
Jack Canfield
Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault. View quote
Christopher McDougall
I learned that the problems that we have are not solved by blaming somebody else, and that our hope is not in who governs us as a nation. It's not in Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or Ron Paul. Our hope is in the power of God and his gospel working in the hearts of people. View quote
Kirk Cameron
Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains. View quote
Anthony Albanese
I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message. View quote
Anthony Holden
The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams. View quote
Bill Klem
It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own. View quote
Julian Schnabel
Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim. View quote
LZ Granderson
I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can. View quote
Mindy McCready
The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many. (Patricia Ireland)
As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us. View quote
Pearl Cleage
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector. View quote
Thomas Woods
Through the principle of associated habit, the same movements of the face and eyes are practised, and can, indeed, hardly be avoided, whenever we know or believe that others are blaming, or too strongly praising, our moral conduct. View quote
Charles Darwin
The most destructive habit [to relationships] is criticizing; next comes blaming, but any of the habits are more than capable of disconnecting you from a person you want to be close with. View quote
William Glasser