A Quote by Plutarch

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Plutarch

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Blame Neither Praise Yourself

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Plutarch
Greek - Philosopher
46 - 120

Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

Abraham Cowley

Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable.

Gorgias

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Thomas a Kempis

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

Gautama Buddha

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

Quentin Crisp

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment, autonomy over dependency, liberty over servitude. You can't blame me because you know (come on, man, you've always known) that the idea of spending eternity with nothing to do except praise God is utterly unappealing. You'd be catatonic after an hour. Heaven's a swiz because to get in you have to leave yourself outside. You can't blame me because -- now do please be honest with yourself for once -- you'd have left, too.

Glen Duncan

So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

John Berryman

Don't blame yourself, or worry. Neither does a bit of good.

Janet Morris

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

William Gilmore Simms

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.

Catherine the Great

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

William Gilmore Simms

Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!

Herman Cain

Don't blame Wall Street. Don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself!

Herman Cain

It is neither a great praise nor a great blame when people say a tendency is in or out of fashion. If a tendency is as it should be at one time, it is always as it should be.