George Burns Quotes

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.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Blaming others is excusing yourself.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

To err is human. To blame somebody else is politics.

it’s very easy to blame people.

A lot of the mistakes I made were my fault.

You cannot always blame others if things go wrong.

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.

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

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.

Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

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

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

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 external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

All this has been my fault.