Blame Quotes

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.
~Friedrich Nietzsche


It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
~Oscar Wilde


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


Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
~Alexander Pope


Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
~Erica Jong


Blame is for God and small children.
~Dustin Hoffman


Blame is safer than praise.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


I praise loudly, I blame softly
~Catherine the Great


Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
~Dwight Morrow


An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.
~Sam Ewing


A bad workman always blames his tools.
~Proverb


You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
~Kahlil Gibran


A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
~John C. Maxwell


He who excuses himself accuses himself.
~Gabriel Meurier


Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole-in-one.
~Martha Beckman


Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
~Bertrand Russell


We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
Hubert H. Humphrey


A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
~J. Paul Getty


You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
~Henry David Thoreau


A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
~Henry Louis Mencken


If you blame others for your failures, do you credit them with your success?
~Anonymous


Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
~Charles Schulz


A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.
~Russell H. Ewing