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Blame Motivational and Inspirational Quotes

Posted on January 2, 2012January 3, 2012 by

Blame is a lazy man’s wages. – Danish Proverb

A man may fall many times but he won’t be a failure until he says someone pushed him. – Elmer G. Letterman

Fix the problem, not the blame. – Catherine Pulsifer

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. – Alexander Pope

Don’t make excuses… make good. – Elbert Hubbard

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

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. – Plutarch

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. – Wayne Dyer

I praise loudly, I blame softly. – Catherine II of Russia

Failure Quotes

Posted on April 14, 2010 by

– “If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.” – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

– “Failure is an event, never a person.” – William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!

– “The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything – and it works.” – William Strong

– “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

– “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby

– “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard

– “Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford

– “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

– “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure… it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert Schuller

– “One fails forward toward success.” – Charles F. Kettering

– “One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.” – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

– “A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.” – Elmer G. Letterman

– “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald