Blame Quotations

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.

I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.

Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

It's too easy to blame other people in football.

The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Dont blame others for your own inadequacies.

I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man...

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

I once in a while cheat and have a little ice cream, and then I kind of blame myself.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.

If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I'm not satisfied with how I look on the runway.

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently.

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.

I'm really happy with where I am, the movies in my life. Not satisfied, necessarily. But I won't put it on somebody else, blame anybody else for my position in the business. It's the choices I have made.

In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told me not to blame religion because of a few bad people, I wasn't convinced. The faith was restored after I started writing my first book.

Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else.

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

In actuality, California could be a wonderful place to live. In fact, if you're highly educated and ambitious, you can do quite well here while enjoying the sun and the fun. The only problem: California will then blame you for your success and recommend that all your cash be removed from you.

I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.

I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Can't blame men for wanting him. And wouldn't be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back. Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

The way a woman or a man handles themselves, at a certain age I can't blame you for the way you act, because somebody didn't bring you up right, and the betterment is why I have a foundation titled Angels and Hearts. That's why I have Trey's Angels: to let women know that they are angels.

Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!

I learned that the problems that we have are not solved by blaming somebody else, and that our hope is not in who governs us as a nation. It's not in Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or Ron Paul. Our hope is in the power of God and his gospel working in the hearts of people.

If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.

Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them.

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.

We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I am aware that as an actor, I can blame others for the failure of a film, the director, the script, choice of co-stars, timing of the release and so on. But now, as the director, I will have to shoulder all the blame.

Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and PMS. After I hit 50, I blamed the lack of hormones. But men get stuck, too, so it must simply be the human condition.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.