Quotes About Blame

Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

We'll never find that one, and I'll be blamed," announced Edd Tollett, the dour grey-haired squire everyone called Dolorous Edd. "Nothing ever goes missing that they don't look at me, ever since that time I lost my horse. As if that could be helped. He was white and it was snowing, what did they expected

Grieve for your friend, but never blame yourself.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed.

Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators... but they don't carry it the way the victims do.

The man did not attempt to deny it: 'Yes! It's the fault of this town.' The woman, pale and mournful, agreed: 'It's not our fault. Death is stronger than Love here.' ("The Dead Town")

Guilt is the fertilizer that feeds resentment.

It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.' 'I like that!' exclaimed Mother. 'I never did anything of the sort!' 'Well, we didn't get as selfish as this without some guidance,' said Larry.

Our egos motivate us to believe that we will feel more peaceful and happy if we find someone to blame and direct our anger at that person.

used to feel that I was a victim of the world I saw. When things would go wrong, I would blame the world or those in it for my misery and feel justified in my anger. Today, I know I am not a victim of the world I see, and therefore tend to take responsibility for whatever I perceive and for the emotions I experience.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Blaming someone else will only put the solution further out of reach.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.

The opportunities for enjoyment in your life are limitless. If you feel you are not experiencing enough joy, you have only yourself to blame.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong."

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

0 thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with predestin'd evil round Enmesh, and then impute my fall to sin.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.