F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort."
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Blame
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Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions."
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."
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"How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?"
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"When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself."
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"Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us."
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"I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly."
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"You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself."
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"Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated."
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"Do not Blame the world. Find a solution."
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"It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame."
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"You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people."
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"Blaming things on the past does not make them better."
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"Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem."
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"When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself."
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"The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything."
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"Blaming others is excusing yourself."
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"Let us blame none, let us blame our own Karma."
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"If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer."
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"Neither blame or praise yourself."
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"Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost."
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"Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?"
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