Pointing Fingers Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old pointing fingers quotes, pointing fingers sayings, and pointing fingers proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. Don Shula
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
Before pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean. Bob Marley
At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure. Erin Cummings
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis
All too often we have been pulled away from being honest with ourselves and drawn into a game of blaming others for bad situations. Just how crazy has our society become with playing 'the blame game?' Joseph E. McGuire
When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. Joe Strummer
All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody. Shia LaBeouf
Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility. Barry Eisler
The blame game is a waste of time. Any time you're busy fixing blame, you're wasting energy and not fixing the problem. Rick Warren
The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem. Shane Smith
It's so much easier to point a finger than to take responsibility yourself, isn't it? Maybe it isn't so simple as this person's fault or that one. Maybe we make up the dance together, as we go along, and no one knows what the result will be. Claire Cross
When we blame, we give away our power. Greg Anderson
Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself. Robin Sharma
You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.' Nick Saban
Your 'hand-shake' can encourage tens of people while your 'finger-pointing' can turn ten thousands away from you! Israelmore Ayivor
It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your success and failures are entirely your own responsibility. Paulo Coelho
Solutions are not found by pointing fingers; they are reached by extending hands. Aysha Taryam
When others, a man begins to blame / He'll soon find himself alone, / The same. Nigel Bloomfield
And so, pointing fingers become pointing guns, because nobody listens to fingers. Jeff Shaara
Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror! Eric Thomas
If you are looking to inspire people then blaming is the last thing you want to do. To inspire others, focus your attention on the solution not the blame. No good comes from blame, good comes from finding a way to correct the situation. Kate Summers
Sometimes you have to blame yourself before you can blame others. Joe Bonamassa
Easy to judge the mistakes of others, difficult to recognize our own mistakes. Anonymous