Blame Quotes

“Blaming others for your situation may make you feel good, but it won’t improve your circumstances one bit.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

“If you look in the mirror and don’t like what you see, don’t blame the mirror.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

“To blame me in the past is a very future me thing to do. But what am I supposed to do, scapegoat someone else for my mistakes? Somebody needs to be held accountable, and it certainly won’t be the version of me in that moment.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks

“Milli Vanilli blamed it on the rain. But I’m a farmer, so I blame it on the drought.”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“Women are shamed for this kind of curiosity, cursed for its devastating, world-ruining effects. Much more than men, I think, as I feel the cool metal of the doorknob in my fist. Where are the Bible stories and myths about men screwing everything up? Why are women always compared to cats, curious and relentless, happily wreaking havoc because they just. Want. To. Know the goddamned answer? Why all this, and never a thought to the fact that more men have torn up the world than women?”
― Christina Dalcher, Femlandia

“The question of responsibility? That seemed a matter for outsiders: only those with a sufficient lack of evidence and knowledge could confidently apportion blame.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“We like the idea that there’s always someone responsible for any given event, because that helps us make sense of the world. We like that so much that sometimes we blame ourselves, just so that there’s someone to blame. But not everything is under our control, or even anyone’s control.”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“There was nothing that could have been done to save him, Nesta.'

The words were kindling. Elain had accepted his death as inevitable. She hadn't bothered to fight him, as if he hadn't been worth the effort, precisely as Nesta knew she herself wasn't worth the effort.

This time, Nesta didn't stop the power from shining in her eyes, she shook so violently she had to fist her hands. 'You tell yourself there's nothing that could have been done because it's unbearable to think that you could have saved him, if you'd only deigned to show up a few minutes earlier.' The lie was bitter in her mouth.

It wasn't Elain's fault their father had died. No, that was entirely Nesta's own fault. But if Elain was determined to root out the good in her, then she'd show her sister how ugly she could be. Let a fraction of this agony rip into her.

This was why Elain had chosen Feyre. This.

Feyre had rescued Elain time and again. BUt Nesta had sat by, armed only with her viper's tongue. Sat by while they starved. Sat by when Hybern stole them away and shoved them into the Cauldron. Sat by when Elain had been kidnapped. And when their father had been in Hybern's grip, she had done nothing, nothing to save him, either. Fear had frozen her, blanketing her mind, and she'd let it do so, let it master her, so that by the time her father's neck had snapped, it had been too late. And entirely her fault.

Why wouldn't Elain choose Feyre?”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Vera did not reply. He had called her careless, was blaming her, passing judgment and in this he was no different to all other men: they had their way with women, but God forbid the woman they wanted to marry should be sullied. Even one who had been trapped...”
― Barbara Townsend, Out of mind

“You've had plenty of engineering delays,' Hammond said. 'Don't blame it on the animals.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Let's keep it in perspective,' Hammond said. 'You get the engineering correct and the animals will fall into place. After all, they're trainable.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Make it your goal to always be bigger than the criticisms leveled against you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When the bottom falls out and you’re in a free-fall, you can certainly pull the ripcord of blame. However, blame never packed a chute because it had no idea that it got on a plane.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“At the end of the day, it was always human beings who were responsible. The tools they employed, the code they wrote, the rules and regulations and chain of command . . . None of these layers actually absolved anyone. They only muddied the waters so the guiltiest parties could pretend they’d done nothing wrong.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“You're looking for the same thing as everyone else. You want me to blame her, or for her to blame me. You want someone to be wrong and the other person to be right, and marriage... my marriage, at least, it wasn't like that. We just fell apart, and then we had to pick up the pieces and move on.”
― Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada

“Blaming others only fueled my rebellion and made me look at what was wrong with everyone and everything else, while entirely ignoring what was wrong with me.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Since I didn’t like the law or the consequences for breaking it, I lived in denial of it. But pretending as if it weren’t there did not make it disappear. So, I retaliated against those who represented it. If I couldn't divert the consequences, I diverted the blame. I blamed the police for my consequences. I blamed them for “ruining my life.” I blamed them for my arrests. I refused to accept that it was my fault for breaking the law in the first place. Blaming others allowed me to keep believing whatever I wanted and acting however I wanted.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“When people can't manage their life, they blame you for the mess in their life.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“It's easy to throw blame, it's hard to admit guilt. No matter the passed time, these wounds won’t fade away unless you dig deep to build the well from which reason springs.”
― David Omrai

“Grieve for your friend, but never blame yourself. You did not kill the butcher's boy. That murder lies at the Hound's door, him and the cruel woman he serves.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Don't take on the blame that belongs to others.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Panenka had already internalised the profound blame being attached to him. He deserved it and the name that had already become branded on him. The criticism was justified; the punishment similarly so. They should be allowed to destroy him, and if they didn't do it, he would do it to himself.”
― Ronan Hession, Panenka

“A ventriloquist wants to be someone else. Ventriloquists wish to speak but want to blame someone else for the consequences of their words.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Road to Vent Haven

“This tendency to blame people for their own pain is comforting, in a twisted way: it allows us to close up our hearts and ignore the suffering of others.”
― Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist

“If we dig deep enough, we can find a way to blame ourselves for anything.”
― Madeline Freeman, Christmas in Clearwater: A Clearwater Witches Tale

“In certain quarters the quest for scapegoats had begun. It was important to know whose fault all this was. It was important to know if things were going to get worse. Maybe there were identifiable persons, destabilizing persons, who were somehow responsible for the destabilized world.”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“Choose the good so that the results will be good. If you choose the bad, you only have to blame yourself.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Maybe you’re that ‘someone else’ whose job everything appears to be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Avoiding accountability and shifting blame only delays the path to growth and self-improvement.”
― Carlos Wallace

“Instead of running from accountability and chasing blame, stand still and let responsibility guide your way.”
― Carlos Wallace, Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free