“Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck? If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are.” IfsLooksDoeSelfSometimesMomentsShowsWinningLossWillingLosingPerformancesBlameLuckWho You AreValuableComplainingBehaveInternalsDefiningBad Luck Author:Lance Armstrong
“We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.” LittlesStillsProblemSeemsRunningMotherFatherToo MuchWillingBlameForgivingTerrorShrinksMother Love Author:Frank Pittman
“I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.” IfsWantLongNamesMinesWillingSucceedBlameCreditDrains Author:Bill Watterson
“Fail is a verb not a noun, most people think that when they fail, they become a noun and call themselves failures. People have to learn from their mistakes just as children learn to ride bicycles by falling off bicycles. Mistakes can be priceless if we are willing to learn from them because the price to becoming rich is the willingness to make mistakes and learn from them without blaming or justifying” PeopleIfsThinkingChildrenFallMistakeRichFailingWillingBecomingBlameMaking MistakesWillingnessBicyclePricelessVerbsNounsFalling OffWilling To Learn Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“I'm convinced that a lot of people simply don't know what's available out there and how it is possible to find a job and work your way up if you are willing to accept responsibility for your life. I know what it's like to be on the bottom. I've been broke. I've been fired seven times from jobs. And I don't even have a college degree. But I didn't blame anyone else for my problems. I knew that if I didn't try to solve them on my own or with the help of friends or family members, no one else was going to take care of me.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayTryingHelpingProblemCareJobsMy OwnResponsibilityAcceptingCollegeWillingMembersDegreesBlameSevenBottomAvailableSolveTake CareConvincedBrokeFamily MembersCollege DegreeTake Care Of MeResponsibility For Your Life Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to blame, and not willing to blame themselves.” PeopleKnowsViolenceWillingAmbitionBlameStrikesFrustrationCrushedDissatisfaction Author:John Henrik Clarke
“To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldWayHandsSidesInterestLeaderWillingJudgingConflictBlameWestCorruptionPresidentialDeceitMutualNew WaysGlobesFistsDissentMutual RespectInaugurationInauguralMuslim WorldWay ForwardSilencingMutual Interest Author:Barack Obama
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.” MadeRealIssuesClearWillingBlameMade ItMinistersBordersGenerousPrimePrime MinisterConcessions Author:Herman Cain
“Are you willing to push the right buttons even if it means being perceived as the villain? … I'd rather be perceived as a winner than a good teammate. I wish they both went hand in hand all the time but that's just not reality. … I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.” PeopleIfsMeanHandsRealityWishCommonWillingBlameWinnerLazyVillainButtonsTeammateHand In HandGood TeamLazy People Author:Kobe Bryant
“I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done” DoneWillingBlame Author:Lillie Langtry
“I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas.” IdeasCoursesMistakeLearningWillingFailureWasteProjectsBlamePreparedBoardsDoomedBad IdeasDumpProject ManagementOutfits Author:Luke Johnson
“I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren’t willing to take chances, which is why you have a committee in the first place — so you can share the blame.” FirstsChanceDealsShareWillingBlameTyrantsCommitteesTake A Chance Author:Hal Riney
“It is not love that is to blame. But each of us has resistance to the very love we desire. We also have resistance to the space and independence we need. So we go back and forth, not letting ourselves have one or the other. It all boils down to this: Are you willing to have your relationships be a pathway to fully revealing yourself and your potential? If you answer is Yes, real intimacy can be yours on a daily basis.” IfsNeedsRealDesireSpaceAnswersWillingBasesIndependenceBlameResistanceIntimacyOur RelationshipRevealingBack And ForthPathways Author:Gay Hendricks
“To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.” GovernmentIndividualJusticePoorRichTakenWillingJudgingMembersAbuseBlameFavorsWelfareProductivePrivilegedIdlenessDisadvantaged Author:Norman Mailer