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Quotes About Blame

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of things as They Are!
~ Rudyard Kipling
I wasted another year of my life but this time it's not my fault.
~ Internet meme
I knew a man who succeeded in finding an evil word for everything he didn't have and everything he didn't understand.
~ Ivo Andri?
The wrong is never the only thing a wrong-doer has done.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
Whether or not we know what we are creating or how we are creating it, when things do not turn out the way we desire, our human instincts drive us to look for someone to blame.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
What we eventually uncovered was that I was afraid—afraid to ask for what I wanted, afraid to speak up for myself, afraid that I didn't have what it took to do what I really wanted to do. In response to my fears, I blamed other people for what I considered their failure to acknowledge me. The conversation didn't stop there.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
It is always so much easier to blame someone else rather than accepting responsibility for your experiences.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.
~ J.D. Robb
Admitting it would mean accepting some responsibility and blame, something she isn't equipped to do. Others must be blamed.
~ J.D. Robb
as with any ugly time the innocents suffered and paid more than those who incited the ugliness.
~ J.D. Robb
People sue the clouds if it rains on their picnic.
~ J.D. Robb
The mistake the two of us made,' I said, 'was that we skimped the foreplay. I'm not blaming you, it was as much my fault as yours, but it was a fault nonetheless.
~ J.M. Coetzee
We don't get to pick who we fall for…you were not wrong in loving him, true? That part, no one can blame you for…and you've suffered enough. He
~ J.R. Ward
Dont' try to own problems or faults that aren't yours. It's not a good longterm strategy.
~ J.R. Ward
Tragedy was but a moment. Responsibility for it was forever.
~ J.R. Ward
In short, Beauty Smith was a monstrosity, and the blame of it lay elsewhere. He was not responsible. The clay of him had been moulded in the making.
~ Jack London
It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me!
~ Akshay Kumar
A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
~ Brad Feld
It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.
~ Moby
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.
~ Bill Klem
The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.
~ Franz Schubert
Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?
~ Pratibha Patil
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
~ Robert Fripp
No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.
~ Susie Orbach