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One suffers as a result of one's own actions. So, instead of blaming others for such sufferings, one should pray to the Lord and depending entirely on His grace, try to bear them patiently and with forbearance under all circumstances.
Sep 10, 2025
If you continue to blame other people for “making” you feel guilty, they still have power over you, and you are saying that you will only feel good when they stop doing that. You are giving them control over your life. Stop blaming other people.
Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.
We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.
It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.
One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.
There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.
You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life just noticing that and letting it be a way to uncover the silliness of the human condition-the tragic yet comic drama that we all continually buy into-you could develop a lot of wisdom and a lot of kindness as well as a great sense of humor.
Today I release the need to blame anyone, including myself.
Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself.
It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.
Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.
You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.
There's no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . . . ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise.
When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems.
Don't try to blame the pain on anyone. Blaming others won't erase the pain.
One secret to my success is that I am faithful to my dreams and don't cheat on my dreams by taking drugs or blaming others when things don't go right.
Don't make excuses, make good.
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Blaming others is excusing yourself.
You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can't be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean every time, you blame, justify, or complain, you are slitting your financial throat.
By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.
You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
You can either blame everybody else or you can take a look at yourself and determine where you can improve.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes, and for your failures. You can't go blaming others, or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.
While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.
Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.
Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.
Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.
I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.