Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.

There are two tendencies in all our war talk.... The first is to boast, if not of ourselves and our deeds, at least of our army, our corps, our regiments. The other is to find fault with, to criticize, to censure, to condemn others. If there is a victory, we gained it and must have the credit of it. If there is a failure, it was the fault of the other fellow,--he must be blamed for it.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

There is something delicious in finding fault with something.

People are very apt to shift the Blame off themselves, and lay it upon others, when perhaps they themselves are as much or more to blame. The popular Cry is against Merchants and Traders, as if they had ruined the Country; or against those who are or have been in the Government

I praise loudly; I blame softly.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

The letters SG do not stand for Secretary General but for Scape Goat.

None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves.

Always, when things don't go the way that everyone expects, people - the supporters as well - always look for someone to blame. In some cases, they blame the players.

When things go well, the quarterback is the one who sees all the attention. When things go wrong, they are the ones who get criticized the most.

If you play bad, people are going to let you know.

We take the plaudits when things are going well so you have to take the criticism when it's not going well.

When you're not successful, people look at the driver and say, 'what's wrong with him?' and sometimes the drivers look back and wonder 'what makes you think you're not the problem?'

I don't need people shouting at me to tell me what I did wrong.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Stop taking things personally. Throughout the time with "Kitchen Nightmares" and "Hotel Hell," when they work, you don't get any praise. When they fail, you get blamed. You're f - ed either way, but it doesn't stop me doing them, I think.