Home / Topics / Blame Quotes

Blame Quotes

Browse 2507 quotes about Blame.

Blame Quotes

“I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.”

Ifs Chance Weakness Blame Good Work Impotence

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.”

Might Lord Greater Weakness Shame Blame Faults Adam

Author:Emilia Lanier

“Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again.”

Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940

“It's absolutely true that people who believed Hillary Clinton would be a decent or even strong nominee need to think why that got that wrong. Laying the entire blame at the feet of Russia and the FBI is not sufficient. The biggest reason things went wrong were her own choices and her own weaknesses.”

People Thinking Needs Reason Would Be Choices Strong Feet Weakness Blame Clinton Russia Sufficient Decent Fbi

Author:Jonathan Chait

“Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.”

Ifs Young Opportunity Causes Ought Weakness Blame Excuse Sophistication Misanthropy

Author:Steven Pinker

“Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that is when we are truly tested. When all that we have within is exposed, and we may no longer blame our inadequacies for our failure, but must instead depend upon our strengths to succeed ... that is when the measure of a man is taken, my boy.”

Men May Boys Taken Depends Succeed Weakness Blame Exposed Evident Tested Inadequacy My Boys Measure Of A Man

Book:Here, There Be Dragons

Source: Here, There Be Dragons

“Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.”

Men Character Passion Mistake Fate Weakness Blame Echoes

Author:Democritus

“How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?”

Persons Done Felt Weakness Blame

Book:The Kitchen God's Wife

Source: The Kitchen God's Wife

“Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green”

Men Character Passion Mistake Fate Weakness Blame Green Abundance Echoes

Author:John Green

“People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.”

People Want Responsibility Accepting Disease Weakness Responsible Blame Genetics

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be no blame anywhere. One swallows what is, and becomes free.”

Want Inspirational Doe Self Remember Weakness Blame Oneself True Self Rise Above

Author:Rodney Collin

“We can't point at an image of an evil god, such as Satan, and blame it for our faults and weaknesses. We can't blame fate. Every second of each day we're creating our futures, shaping the courses of our lives.”

Courses Evil Our Lives Fate Creating Weakness Blame Faults Satan Each Day Our Future Every Second Evil God Creating Our Future

Book:Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

Source: Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

“We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.”

Humans Looks Long Eye Human Beings Weakness Blame Lays Faults Recognise

Book:Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

“Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.”

Wells May Tears Quiet Weakness Fairs Blame Noble Breasts Contempt Nobility

Author:John Milton