Blame Game Quotes:

The only time a politico will try to avoid playing the blame game is when they or theirs are to blame.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Games, Trying, Blame, Blame Game

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.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Spiritual, Time, Inspiration, Blaming Others, Responsibility To Others

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

- John Burroughs

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Running, Failure In Life, Blaming Others

Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror!

- Eric Thomas

topic: Life, Mirrors, Games, Blame Game

From this moment forward…I stop the blame game and excuses. I am responsible for my life and for where I am today. I cannot blame the people and circumstances in my past, and I refuse to hide behind my past mistakes.

- Lance Wubbels

topic: Mistake, Past, Games, Past Mistakes, Blame Game

When people get in your face and say, 'This will pass,' you think, Are they crazy? I'm never gonna feel any better than I feel right this minute and nothing's ever gonna make sense again... You see a lot of people play this blame game. Blame, blame, blame. You know? And it's a really easy thing to do, and I'm certainly guilty of it. [You have to] look at yourself and go, 'What part of this do I need to own? Which part of this is my responsibility?' And that's the painful work that you have to go through to hopefully get some real life knowledge out of it.

- Reese Witherspoon

source: Elle Interview, www.elle.com. March 4, 2009.

topic: Real, Crazy, Responsibility, Look At Yourself, Blame Game

One of the things I tell my students is that if you want to understand what's been going on and also what needs to be done, you've got to get out of the blame game. Some people on the left want to blame the rich and corporations. Some people on the right want to blame the poor and government. Either of those frames of reference gets you nowhere and they aren't even truthful. You've got to understand the dynamic itself.

- Robert Reich

source: "MI6 and ministers urged to use social networks" by Richard Norton-Taylor, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2011.

topic: Government, Games, People, Blame Game

An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of how I will approach problems in my life, that things will turn out better or worse because of me and nobody else, that was the day I knew I would be a happier and healthier person. And that was the day I knew I could truly build a life that matters.

- Steve Goodier

topic: Games, Decision, Important, Blame Game

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

- Carl Lewis

topic: Games, People, Political, Counterparts, Fed Up

Don’t brush anything under the rug. Don’t point fingers or do the blame game. A team is a family, and we’re in this together.

- Erik Spoelstra

topic: Team, Games, Together, Blame Game

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.

- Ron Wyden

topic: Games, Care, Blame, Blame Game

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

- Tony Abbott

topic: Games, Done, Blame, Making Excuses, Blame Game

I pray that our leaders stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game and seek a real solution for the good of the planet and all who inhabit it.

- Don Cheadle

topic: Real, Games, Leader, Blame Game, Pointing Fingers

I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance.

- Jane Siberry

topic: Istanbul, Games, Australia, Healer, Blame Game

...there is therefore now no condemnation for two reasons: you are dead now; and God, as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, has been dead all along. The blame game was over before it started. It really was. All Jesus did was announce that truth and tell you it would make you free. It was admittedly a dangerous thing to do. You are a menace. Be he did it; and therefore, menace or not, here you stand: uncondemned, forever, now. What are you going to do with your freedom?

- Robert Farrar Capon

topic: Jesus, Games, Two, Blame Game, Your Freedom

You know what's amazing to me? America. There have been so many people who have stepped up, and I'm just proud to be an American. Yeah, there were some mistakes made, but I don't play the blame game. Let's move forward and rebuild New Orleans.

- Charles Barkley

topic: Basketball, Mistake, Moving, Proud To Be An American, Blame Game

What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. I've heard nothing from BP about not paying for the spill. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.

- Rand Paul

topic: Thinking, Games, Criticism, Spills, Conservative Values

You’re the one who unleashed him. (Savitar) Yeah, well, let’s move on from the blame game. I was having suicidal thoughts and it seemed like a good idea at the time. In retrospect, not so much. (Stryker)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “One Silent Night”, p.75, Hachette UK

topic: Moving, Suicidal, Games, Savitar, Blame Game

The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.

- Kevin Rudd

topic: Games, Government, Decision, Blame Game

The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls.

- Herman Cain

topic: Believe, Tired, Games, Blame Game

It's interesting that at a time when she could have differentiated herself from the ranks of [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and the far left ranks of the Democratic Party, she chose to join those on the front ranks of the blame game, It would have been interesting if she had shown some level of restraint.

- Brian Jones

topic: Party, Games, Interesting, Blame Game