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Quotes About Blame

That was guilt.
~ John Boyne
Blame. Whenever things don't turn out as planned, blame yourself or others. Blame is another defensive cover-up for shame. Blame maintains the balance in a dysfunctional system when control has broken down.
~ John Bradshaw
It tells you that you are responsible for other people's feelings and behavior; it may even tell you that your behavior made someone else sick, as when a father says, "Look what you kids have done, you've made your mother sick!" This results in your having a grandiose sense of responsibility. Toxic guilt is one of the most damaging ways your preschool inner child was wounded.
~ John Bradshaw
Take it for granted that the government will disregard long-term dangers-such as those affecting the environment-in order to cling to power; that the citizenry will do the same because thinking is too much like hard work; and then the handful of Cassandras are proved right, they will be held to blame and very likely stoned or shot.
~ John Brunner
he told them, that they was bound to keep me from preaching; and that if I did preach, their bonds would be forfeited.  To which I answered, that then I should break them; for I should not leave speaking the Word of God: even to counsel, comfort, exhort, and teach the people among whom I came; and I thought this to be a work that had no hurt in it: but was rather worthy of commendation, than blame.
~ John Bunyan
Without hope, the need to punish is the one true religion. Blame must be fixed on some soul other than one's own.
~ Unknown
If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn't be able to sit down for weeks.
~ John C. Maxwell
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
~ John C. Maxwell
People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can't do that if you don't take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.
~ John C. Maxwell
A victim is a person who suffers a loss because of the actions of others.
~ John C. Maxwell
Whose fault is it, then? Dennis Compton's (Basil Fawlty)
~ John Cleese
Don't punish the one in front of you, for the mistakes made by the one behind you.
~ Unknown
Shot through the heart, And youre to blame, Darlin, You give love a bad name.
~ Unknown
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
~ Thomas Kempis
Im sooo done with this. let me know when you can take the fault for YOUR mistakes!
~ Unknown
Sometimes, this broken heart gives birth to anxiety and panic, sometimes to anger, resentment and blame. But under the hardness of that armor there is a tenderness of genuine sadness. This is our link with all those who have ever loved.
~ Pema Chodron
You make me sound like a criminal even though it was you who broke my heart.
~ Unknown
Lately, I just keep hearing people blame love. Actually love doesn't walk away, people do.
~ Unknown
Losing the one you love was really painful especially when it was your fault.
~ Unknown
Sometimes we may find that our partner continues to seek satisfaction in a ways that we cannot live with. Nevertheless, when we decide to go our own way we still have a choice as to how we separate. We can separate with bad feelings; blaming the other's fault and unacceptable behavior. Or we can separate with forgiveness, love and understanding.
~ Unknown
Don't say you miss me, when it's your fault I'm gone.
~ Unknown
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
~ Unknown
Everybody makes mistakes, but some are never forgotten or forgiven.
~ Unknown
It takes a second to make a mistake, but a lifetime to try and forget it was your fault.
~ Unknown