Blame Quotes

Most popular blame quotes

We praise or blame according to whether the one or the other offers a greater opportunity for our power of judgment to shine out. - Friedrich Nietzsche quote.
We praise or blame according to whether the one or the other offers a greater opportunity for our power of judgment to shine out.

human nature praise

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. - John Burroughs quote.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

failure

It is not whether you win or lose, but how you place the blame.

funny

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. - Thomas à Kempis quote.
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

praise inner peace

Don't badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn't say to him. - John Perry Barlow quote.
Don't badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn't say to him.
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. - Oscar Wilde quote.
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.
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet. - Samuel Beckett quote.
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.

human nature

If you had never condemned, you would not need to forgive.

forgiveness

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Don't fix the blame, fix the problem.
I praise loudly; I blame softly. - Catherine the Great quote.
I praise loudly; I blame softly.

praise

'Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
'Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate.
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

mother mothers and daughters

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

giving up

Blame is like the lightning; it hits the highest. - Baltasar Gracian quote.
Blame is like the lightning; it hits the highest.
We do not suffer gladly human frailty or the limitations of life itself.  We need someone to blame for whatever frustration or deprivation we may have experienced in our lives. Too often that someone is mother.
Elaine Heffner Mothering: The Emotional Experience of Motherhood After Freud and Feminism
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. - Erica Jong quote.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

responsibility

Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate.  Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I will be tomorrow.  The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds. - Louis L'Amour quote.
Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate.  Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I will be tomorrow.  The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds.

weakness responsibility

The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame. - Livy quote.
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
Livy Ab Urbe Condita

sin intention

There is a luxury in self-reproach.  When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.