“You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Source: Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion
Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)
Context: Do not blame others for your own mistakes. … YOU are Mother Nature. You have the power within you to be thin or fat, as you desire. … God is within you, and you can do and have anything you want. You must love yourself more. … and then … you can love your fellow man.
“You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Source: Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion
Paulo Coelho book Aleph
Source: Aleph (2011)
Context: 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. You can try to stop time, but it’s a complete waste of energy.
“Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. ”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
“Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.”
Thales (-624–-547 BC) ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, I, 36
Cf. Golden Rule