Theodore Dalrymple Quotes

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

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

Blaming others is excusing yourself.

You have yourself to blame.

The moment you believe your own crap and excuses, you fail.

No excuses; those were just weak.

Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

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.

One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

An excuse is sometimes more ugly than guilt.

It was my decision, and I blew it, but I’m not about to say that I blew it.

He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'

I don't believe in luck. Everything is our doing or undoing. If something doesn't come out right, then as a director, you have to take full responsibility. You can't just say, 'No, I gave this job to the music supervisor. They promised me they would do it, and they didn't do it.' You can't blame anyone else.

I don't make excuses.

People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

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

If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably is your fault. And kindly spare me the details.

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.

A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.

The blame is on me...I knew you were trouble when you walked in.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.