Quotes About Blame

you can plan so that nothing goes wrong in life. But something will, and it won't be what you expected to go wrong. So make sure you're with someone who will help you bail the water out of the boat, not someone who will blame you for the hole.

When times is tough and jobs is scarce, folks blame the outsider. It's human nature.

Not that these others are wholly without blame, for even the worst projection is at least hung on a hook, perhaps a very small one, but still a hook offered by the other person.

I'm sorry I got you involved in this

It is not enough to say you are sorry. You must utterly own the terrible thing you have done. You must cast no blame on the one you have injured. Rather, accept every molecule of the responsibility, even if reason and self-preservation scream against it. Then, and only then, will the words 'I am sorry' have meaning.

you aren't a failure until you start to blame. What

What allowed me to take that first step, to choose growth and risk rejection? In the fixed mindset, I had needed my blame and bitterness. It made me feel more righteous, powerful, and whole than thinking I was at fault. The growth mindset allowed me to give up the blame and move on. The growth mindset gave me a mother.

Another way people with the fixed mindset try to repair their self-esteem after a failure is by assigning blame or making excuses.

Remember how hard it is for people with the fixed mindset to forgive? Part of it is that they feel branded by a rejection or breakup. But another part is that if they forgive the partner, if they see him or her as a decent person, then they have to shoulder more of the blame themselves: If my partner's a good guy, then I must be a bad guy. I must be the person who was at fault.

John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren't a failure until you start to blame. What he means is that you can still be in the process of learning from your mistakes until you deny them. When

you aren't a failure until you start to blame.

Iacocca lived the fixed mindset. Although he started out loving the car business and having breakthrough ideas, his need to prove his superiority started to dominate, eventually killing his enjoyment and stifling his creativity. As time went on and he became less and less responsive to challenges from competitors, he resorted to the key weapons of the fixed mindset—blame, excuses, and the stifling of critics and rivals.

John Wooden, el legendario entrenador de baloncesto, dice que no eres un fracasado hasta que no empiezas a culpar

As time went on and he became less and less responsive to challenges from competitors, he resorted to the key weapons of the fixed mindset—blame, excuses, and the stifling of critics and rivals.

When politicians' backs are against the wall, they may reluctantly acknowledge error but not their responsibility for it. The phrase "mistakes were made" is such a glaring effort to absolve oneself of culpability that it has become a national joke—what the political journalist Bill Schneider called the "past exonerative" tense.

Many subjects harshly devalue the victim as a consequence of acting against him. Such comments as, 'He was so stupid and stubborn he deserved to get shocked,' were common. Once having acted against the victim, these subjects found it necessary to view him as an unworthy individual, whose punishment was made inevitable by his own deficiencies of intellect and character.

You didn't tie your shoelaces and you blamed the world when you tripped.

I bet he got picked on but what they don't tell you about bullying is that sometimes, the kid deserves it.

That's a cheat,' I say. 'You can't go through life blaming your childhood for the way you are as an adult.

Could it be that the great Bonaparte is incapable of fathering a child? that it is not I who am at fault but you?

It is an injustice to the Negro, however, to mis-educate him and suffer his manners to be corrupted from infancy unto old age and then blame him for making the mistakes which such guidance necessitates.

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

We ourselves often duck responsibility for our own actions. Just think how much more embarrassed God would be if He were their author.

When the poor man loose control of the best in himself... it ain't his fault at all, it is the fault of people who go 'round making poppits of other poor people.