Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Satchel Paige

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Saskya Pandita

Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
Waylon Jennings

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.
Chaka Fattah

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
John McCarthy

Oh! blame not the bard.
Thomas More

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
Chastity Bono

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
Anna Quindlen

People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?
Marion Berry

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
Robert Collier

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.
Johnny Rotten

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
John Keats

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl S. Buck

She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!
Andrew Card

So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.
Vincent Bugliosi

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
Susan Sontag

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.
Dave Thomas