John Ruskin Quotes

I once in a while cheat and have a little ice cream, and then I kind of blame myself.

You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too

Blaming others is excusing yourself.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

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

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

No excuses; those were just weak.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

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

Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.

I was angry and frightened, and I was scared. I knew what I had done. The whole night is my fault. None of this would have happened if I didn’t drink.

I know it's my fault I should've gave more.

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.

I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call it sin. I would much rather, if possible - and in my estimation it would not be possible - to make it worse than less than it actually is. I have no one but myself to blame. I do not lay the fault or the blame of the charge at anyone else's feet. For no one is to blame but I take the responsibility. I take the blame. I take the fault.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

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.