Nikolai Gogol Quotes

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.

You have yourself to blame.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I say and how I look has a great impact.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

I have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realizeВ people are buying the whole thing.

In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.

One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.

It ain't the rain, the snow, the boss, the competition, the spouse, the money, the car, the job, or the kids - it's you! And it always has been.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be greed - but something in you must be the reason that is creating the misery.

If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself.

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.