Quotes About Blame

We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that.

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

The average American husband has relinquished his responsibility as head of his household. Though the wife is partly at fault, he is mostly to blame. I'm not suggesting that women should return to the subservient position before their emancipation when they were virtually slaves of their husbands. But freedom for women can be overdone.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.

Is this something that's being done to me or am I doing it to myself?

I know how affirming it feels to blame the outside world for my frustrations, to deny ownership of whatever role I might have in the existential play called My Incredibly Important Life.

Anger is the go-to feeling for most people because it's outward-directed—angrily blaming others can feel deliciously sanctimonious. But often it's only the tip of the iceberg, and if you look beneath the surface, you'll glimpse submerged feelings you either weren't aware of or didn't want to show: fear, helplessness, envy, loneliness, insecurity.

I know how affirming it feels to blame the outside world for my frustrations, to deny ownership of whatever role I might have in the existential play called My Incredibly Important Life. I know what it's like to bathe in self-righteous outrage, in the certainty that I'm completely right and have been terribly wronged, because that's exactly how I've felt all day.

Don't blame the stream. Blame the dumbass who climbed into a laundry cart when it was parked at the top of a hill.

Over the centuries people have blamed everything from eating a green chestnut to being cursed by a gypsy. Others have cited being frightened by a burglar, consuming improper combinations of food, and thinking and speaking impure thoughts as direct causes of deafness.

People looking to take offense will always find something to take it at, but then they're the ones with the problem.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather!

IF YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEAD WHEN ALL ABOUT YOU ARE LOSING THEIRS AND BLAMING IT ON YOU

Blame is useless. Blaming only gives away our power. Keep your power. Without power, we cannot make changes. The helpless victim cannot see a way out.

In blaming another, we give away our power. Understanding enables us to rise above the issue and take control of our future.

Blame is one of the surest ways to stay in a problem. In blaming another, we give away our power. Understanding enables us to rise above the issue and take control of our future.

Blame is about giving away one's power. Responsibility gives us the power to make changes in our lives.

we play the victim role, then we are using our personal power to be helpless. If we decide to accept responsibility, then we don't waste time blaming somebody or something out there.

Some people feel guilty for creating illness, or poverty, or problems. They choose to interpret responsibility as guilt.

Blame is one of the surest ways to stay in a problem. In blaming another, we give away our power. Understanding enables us to rise above the issue and take control of our future. The past cannot be changed. The future is shaped by our current thinking.