Nelson Mandela Quotes

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

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

Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others.

It's easy to blame other people when things aren't going well.

Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.

Only the mistakes were mine.

Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.

I don't associate with people who blame the world for their problems. You are your problem. You are also your solution.

Nobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else. My advice to you is don't fix the blame. Fix the problem.

Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.

If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.

Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility.

You have yourself to blame.

What you learn from that first, and I don't call it 'trial by fire,' I call it 'baptism by fire,' is that you are going to have to take all of the responsibility, because basically when it gets right down to it, you are going to get all of the blame, so you might as well have made all of the decisions that led to people either liking it or disliking it. There's nothing worse than hearing somebody say 'Oh, you made that movie? I thought that movie sucked,' and you have to agree with them, you know?

No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.

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.

The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.