Blame Quotes

• 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.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Man
  • Blame
  • Praise

• It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

  

  Homer
  • Humans
  • Fate
  • Gods

• No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Fall
  • Blow
  • Storm

• I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Hurt
  • Sorry
  • I'm Sorry

• We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Trying
  • Blame
  • Skinniness

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Luxury

• The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

  

  Plato
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Distaste

• People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Enemies
  • Forgive

• When we blame all Muslims, all Syrians, or all members of any other group because of the actions of individuals, we fall into the trap of asserting collective guilt. We empower the narrow-minded ideology that we are trying to defeat.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Trying
  • Fall
  • Guilt

• There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Responsible
  • Salvation
  • Sins

• No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
  • Stop
  • Face

• We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Age
  • Lazy
  • Three

• I was a Versace perfume girl at Saks Fifth Avenue, and Rihanna actually came up to the counter and asked for something. And she wouldn't even take her sunglasses off! She was so mean to me. Not mean, but, like, guarded. I don't blame her, though.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Girl
  • Blame
  • Perfume

• Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than on moods or condition. Proactive people are agents of change and choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mood
  • Responsible
  • Victim

• They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Eye
  • Lying
  • Shame

• 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.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Blame

• You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Blame
  • Move
  • Keep

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

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Man
  • Blame
  • Cricket

• We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

  

  Jack Cade
  • Men
  • May
  • True

• People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Driving
  • Auto

• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Game
  • Like
  • Blame

• When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Me
  • Insecure
  • Extravagant

• I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Ideal
  • Promoting
  • Unattainable

• 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.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Home
  • Alone
  • Leaving

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