“I pray not to be such a whiny, self-obsessed baby, and give thanks that I am not quite as bad as I used to be (talk about miracles). Then something comes up, and I overreact and blame and sulk, and it feels like I haven't made any progress at all. But it turns out I'm less of a brat than before, and I hit the reset button much sooner, shake it off, and get my sense if humor back.” IfsGivingFeelsMadeSelfUsedTurnsProgressHavensBabyPrayingMiracleBlameCome UpUsed To BeThanksObsessedShakesButtonsI PrayResetBratSelf ObsessedReset Button Author:Anne Lamott
“Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.” PeopleGivingStatesHandsGovernmentPoorPovertyPolicySolutionsBlameCharityCome UpPoor PeopleSolutions To Poverty Author:Muhammad Yunus
“The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to their children - their unfulfilled desires, their incomplete ambitions. In this way diseases pass on from one generation to another.” WayGivingChildrenWholeDesireParentGenerationsGoes OnDiseaseAmbitionBlameDestroyedHeritageAmbitiousIncompleteUnfulfilled Desires Author:Rajneesh
“I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself” GivingYearsTwoFilmThreeResultsActingGiving UpSingingDecidedBlameTwo YearsThree Years Author:Bobby Darin
“On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to look at the evidence. But I can't blame [the Republicans]. This wasn't something they forced me into. I really believed that given the level of oversight of banks and their ability to have more patient capital, if you made it possible for [banks] to go into the investment banking business as continental European investment banks could always do, that it might give us a more stable source of long-term investment.” IfsGivingLooksLongMadeSaidI CanMightGivenTermAbilityLevelsMistakeSourceRepublicanEvidenceBlameInvestmentPatientGlassesGladMade ItLong TermStableBankingOversightContinentalInvestment Banking Author:William J. Clinton
“I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.” ThinkingGivingTeamFeetIdentityStrongerBlameFundamentalsLaysTeamworkStrictDay To DayBakersInspirational Team Author:Billy Corgan
“I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the subject as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.” GivingHumansRealityActionPoliticalSimpleViewsPrinciplesSubjectsMankindEffectsCircumstancesSolitudeConcernRelationPraiseBlameRelateGentlemanColourSchemesMetaphysicalAbstractionBeneficialHuman Actions Author:Edmund Burke
“You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth” PeopleNeedsGivingFactsUseAbleOrderWealthTechnologyEconomySkillsGainsResourcesBlameMismanagement Author:Wangari Maathai
“If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by Christ should be so backward in devotion, and know so little of the spirit of self-sacrifice. They would be ashamed of the hesitations that hinder us. But we must remember that it was not by interceding for the world in glory that Jesus saved it. He gave Himself. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony as we only give of our superfluity and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves.” IfsKnowsWorldGivingFeelsShouldFirstsLittlesSelfWould BeChristianRememberSpiritFaithJesusChristPrayerWonderSacrificeGloryDrawsBlameSavedDevotionBitterIronyAshamedOur PrayersHesitationSelf SacrificeHinderRedeemed Author:Francois Coillard
“You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . . . ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise.” GivingEndsIndividualExerciseGiving UpEthicsResponsibleBlameIndividualityExcuseBlaming Others Author:Price Pritchett
“The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may give buoyancy to the soul. In many families, there are hurt feelings and a reluctance to forgive. It doesn’t really matter what the issue was. It cannot and should not be left to injure. Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals. George Herbert, an early 17th-century poet, wrote these lines: ‘He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven, for everyone has need of forgiveness.’” IfsNeedsGivingShouldMaySoulMatterFeelingsSpiritLeftStrongHeavenHurtLinesBreakIssuesCenturyPoetBlameForgivingWoundsHealLiftsBridgesHurt FeelingsReluctance17th CenturyBuoyancy Author:Thomas S. Monson
“In the New World, you'll kick your own ass and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll be you own wife. And vise versa. That'll be normal in the New World - different from the Old World, where everyone except me is to blame for my ignorance and you call on everyone except yourself to give you what you need. I'll push my own buttons and right my own wrongs. You'll wake yourself up and sing your won songs.” WorldNeedsGivingDifferentSongParentMy OwnBrainWifeIgnoranceNormalEmpowermentBlameAssKicksNew WorldBe YouButtonsOld World Author:Rob Brezsny
“I don't watch football anymore, I gave that up. I got tired of the interviews after the games, because the winning players always give credit to God, and the losers blame themselves. You know, just once I'd like to hear a player say, 'Yeah, we were in the game, until Jesus made me fumble. He hates our team.'” KnowsGivingMadeHateGamesJesusWinningWatchesPlayerTeamFootballYeahBlameTiredCreditInterviewsLoser Author:Jeff Stilson
“If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life -- that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success.” IfsKnowsWantLifeInspirationalGivingMeanSuccessResultsResponsibilitySuccessfulInspirational LifeLife PhilosophyFailureSucceedGiving UpCreatingBlameComplainingBeing SuccessfulSuccess In LifeKey To SuccessRoad To SuccessPersonal ResponsibilityRecipe For SuccessPrerequisitesResponsibility For Your LifeStop Complaining Author:Jack Canfield
“A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.” GivingLeaderAcceptingBlameCreditMentorWhen Things Go Wrong Author:Bill Courtney
“Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.” IfsKnowsMenGivingArtSelfEvilLordGoneEgoGiving UpAngerBlameGladLustOld ManEgotism Book:Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda Source: Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda
“Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories.” PeopleGivingMotivationalMemoriesWorstLessonsBlameGood LifeGood PeopleBad People Author:Zig Ziglar
“You can rise above it. This country gives you opportunity if you want to take it, so don't blame your environment. I look down on people who use their environment as a crutch.” PeopleIfsWantGivingLooksCountryUseOpportunityEnvironmentBlameRise AboveOur EnvironmentCrutchesRise Above It Author:Vince McMahon
“By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read. By our attitude, we decide to try or give up. By our attitude, we blame ourselves for our failure, or we blame others. Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail.” GivingTryingLyingAttitudeFailingSucceedGiving UpBlameDetermineTelling The TruthDeep ThoughtProcrastinating Author:Jim Rohn
“Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12); because He humbles Himself for the sake of the soul that is bent down to the ground, that He may even exalt within Himself that which is bent double under a weight of sin?... If so, you must blame the physician for stooping over suffering and putting up with evil smells in order to give health to the sick?” IfsGivingMaySoulShowsChristianSufferingOrderEvilSinLordSickWeightBlameSakeSmellOrthodoxPhysiciansBentHumiliationOrthodox ChristianCfsExaltation Author:Gregory of Nazianzus