A Quote by John Burroughs

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

John Burroughs

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John Burroughs
American - Author
April 3, 1837 - March 29, 1921

American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Jeff Olson

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

John Burroughs

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

J. Paul Getty

Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.

Jon Taffer

They are self-loathing people, these leftists. I can't imagine what it would be like to get up and live their life every day. To have to be mad all the time, at everybody else, knowing full well you are a failure and having the inability to do anything about it because you will not look at yourself. You gotta blame George W. Bush or you gotta blame corporations, or you have to blame somebody. Blame talk radio.

Rush Limbaugh

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Many times people think if God has called you to something, he's promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.

Timothy Keller

A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.

Evel Knievel

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

Bum Phillips

If you run a website that doesn't have something that's terrible on it, you are not trying hard enough. You have to fail, fail, fail. You have to fail and fail miserably many times.

Erik Wemple

I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.

Lauren Groff

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

Tom Robbins

Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an open heart and the willingness not to instantly try to get ground under our feet. For instance, if what we're feeling is rage, we usually assume that there are only two ways to relate to it. One is to blame others. Lay it all on somebody else; drive all blames into everyone else. The other alternative is to feel guilty about our rage and blame ourselves.