No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.
Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.
I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.
... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.
It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.
One never perishes through anybody but oneself.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
It was my decision, and I blew it, but I’m not about to say that I blew it.
Commenting on his selection of Dan Quayle as his Vice-Presidential running mate:
I always felt like, well, if TLC doesn't do good, it's because of our own recognizance.
This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.
Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault
With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
I'm not the kind of guy who will blame other people if things don't work out.
My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.
I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.
I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.
It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.
Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.
I don't blame Le Havre. Back then, I wasn't an easy person to handle. I was always one of the first to mess around. So there were a lot of reasons why my adventure stopped at that point.
Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.