Dalai Lama Quotes

You cannot always blame others if things go wrong.

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

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

A lot of actors do that - they blame their failure on their agents or their photos. But that is just putting off the real issues.

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

It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

I don't do the victim mode. I don't do blame. I can't bear that.

If you're a victim, you're always mad, but never at yourself. You're mad at somebody else.

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.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, "Oh, the world is a devil's world." We curse others and say, "What infatuated fools!" But why should we be in such a world, if we really are so good? If this is a devil's world, we must be devils also; why else should we be here? "Oh, the people of the world are so selfish!" True enough; but why should we be found in that company, if we be better? Just think of that.

As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there" - as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering - the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.

I'm not one to blame anyone else for anything. And I don't think anyone else should either.

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.