B Quotes
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“Blame is the creed of the disempowered.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Blame is the lie by which we convince ourselves that we are victims. It is the lie that robs us of our serenity, our generosity, our confidence, an our delight in life . . . For it is the act of blaming that can't co-exist with self-responsibility -- or with freedom from inner agitation and strained relationships. Abandon the practice of blaming, and we see the fear melt away that we have associated with being honest about ourselves and taking the full measure of responsibility for our emotional and spiritual condition.”
“Blame is useless amidst madness.”
Source: The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
“Blame it on Peer Pressure.”
Source: A Killing Frost
“Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.”
“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Blame keeps wounds open; only forgiveness heals”
“Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.”
“Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Blame someone else and get on with your life.”
“Blame the guy who doesn't speak Engish.”
“Blame the ones who deceive, not those who trust.”
Source: Kingdom of Blood and Gold
“Blame the promoter, not me. Damn you!”
“Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.”
“Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good-natured man. She stoops to conquer; or, the Mistakes of a night. An oratorio. Prefaces. [Criticisms
“Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.”
“Blameless Lamb, holy LORD.”
“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”
Source: Middlemarch
“Blamers: Before you judge someone for being too emotional or for being a serial whiner, conduct a self-inquisition and you might discover that you are a deadpan asshole yourself. Your emotional coldness should therefore not result in you judging other people for being too emotional.”
Source: Blame Less: A Grim Journey Into the Life of a Chronic Blamer
“Blames after each failure keep lessons unlearned. When you fall, rise up quickly and learn your lessons... Blames will never make any change; applied lessons will do!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Blames create no change; winners don't apportion blames; only losers have the potentials to do that!”
Source: Shaping the dream
“Blameshifting began immediately after the Fall and has been a sinful tendency ever since. In fact, God's commandment for children to honor their parents was a command against blaming parents.”
Source: 12 Steps to Destruction: Codependecy/Recovery Heresies
“Blaming and judging others, rather than taking responsibility for your actions and developing resilience, produces a culture of victimhood and division, bullying, and abusive behaviours.”
Source: Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice
“Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.”
“Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.”
“Blaming fatness for heart disease is a lot like blaming yellow teeth for lung cancer, rather than considering the possibility that smoking might play a role in both. And telling people they need to lose weight is a lot like telling someone with pneumonia to stop coughing so much—it may not be possible and won’t make the disease go away.”
Source: Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight
“Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming pencils for bad spelling”
“Blaming guns for murder is like blaming forks for obesity.”
“Blaming is a childish act.”
“Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.”
“Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.”
“Blaming none, disrespecting nothing is the doorway to Unity Consciousness.”
Source: Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“Blaming Obama for Iraq violence is like blaming Daniel Craig because Octopussy sucked.”
“Blaming others for our poor choices is assuming that others are as irresponsible as we are, and that they are invested in us enough to take time to be that irresponsible on our behalf.”
“Blaming others for your low self-esteem, for your lack of money, for being overweight, or for feeling bad, is NOT going to make your life better. Take responsibility. Work on it. The choice is yours.”
Source: How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
“Blaming others for your mistakes, makes you powerless to change your life. Taking responsibility for your mistakes, gives you the power to change your life”
“Blaming others for your mistakes you powerless to change your life. Taking responsibility for your mistakes gives you power to change your life.”
“Blaming others for your situation may make you feel good, but it won’t improve your circumstances one bit.”
Source: Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others
“Blaming others is excusing yourself.”
“Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself.”
Source: The Mastery Manual: A Life-Changing Guide for Personal and Professional Greatness
“Blaming others will never make you or your situation any better.”
“Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.”
“Blaming science for mishaps is like blaming the power of speech for all the arguments in the world.”
Source: Why Sh*t Happens: The Science of a Really Bad Day
“Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.”
“Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.”
“Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.”
“Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.”
“Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything in the Middle East. The American desire is to get out as quickly as possible and the general view is that now that the Cold War is over and the Soviets are no longer a problem, we have no reason to stay there, let's get out. They will have to confront their own problems. Israel provides a useful scapegoat but it's a limited one.”
“Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.”
Source: Born to Run