There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde The Portable Curmudgeon
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Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes?
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character.
Dr. 0. A. Battista Words for All Occasions
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Never explain--your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyhow.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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When we blame, we give away our power.
Greg Anderson The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness
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It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
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...blame always begins with anger.
M. Scott Peck Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Toward Spiritual Growth
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Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault
``Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare (King John) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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..look at that word blame. It's just a coincidence that the last two letters spell the word me. But that coincidence is worth thinking about.
Other people or unfortunate circumstances may have caused you to feel pain, but only you control whether you allow that pain to go on.
If you want those feelings to go away, you have to say: "It's up to me."
Arthur Freeman The 10 Dumbest Mistakes Smart People Make and How to Avoid Them
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Elizabeth Barret Browning The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Tacitus Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
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Don't make excuses--make good.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it--immediately.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
John Powell Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
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A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him.
Elmer G. Letterman Body, Mind and Spirit
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The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That's when, "Why me?" becomes a theme song.
Roger Dawson The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
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Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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To blame is easy, to do it better is difficult.
German proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Power Quotes
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When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past?
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble? Who was to blame?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it? What can I salvage here?'
Abraham Maslow Thoughts on Leadership
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
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...let us own our pain and move away from guilt, fault and blame toward recovery and healing.
Bernie S. Siegel, MD Love, Medicine & Miracles
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Don't make excuses, make good.
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
Charlotte Bronte Treasury of Women's Quotations
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Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Donald A. Laird The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
Bishop Berkeley The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.
Jan Ashford Treasury of Women's Quotations
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