Quotes About Excuses

En la vida se tienen pretextos o resultados. Hay quienes piensan que ambas cosas valen lo mismo.

I didn't want to look at him through rose-colored glasses, knowing all along that what I was seeing could very well be untrue, and yet when I was with him, I welcomed my refusal to search for and find flaws. The irony was I was often sickened by the way my girlfriends made excuses for their husbands, even the way I sometimes made excuses for Ronnie. Of course, we were really making excuses for ourselves, finding ways not to look like fools.

The more the bullshit, the less the action as a rule,

It is easy to kill with a bow, girl. How easy it is to release the bowstring and think, it is not I, it is the arrow. The blood of that boy is not on my hands. The arrow killed him, not I. But the arrow does not dream anything in the night.

The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

Tens una por terrible, i ho entenc, però hauries d'evitar justificar-te sempre darrere d'aquesta por.

I had a period where everything... if it's raining, I'm angry because it's raining. If I miss, it's because the pitch is too wet. It was only excuses. It was not good.

To me, Pride is loving myself and not making excuses for anything: Live in your truth.

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

There are only two kinds of employees that I've run across in 30 years. There are ones that get results, and ones that make excuses. If you're in that second camp, you're not going to like Dish.

When you're young, you do dumb things. I just can't understand why some other athletes never were extended that same excuse.

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

We clearly see in God's Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It's easier to come up with excuses for why we can't do things that are hard or that we really don't want to do.

This was also his MO. Excuses for his behavior so he wouldn't have to accept what he'd done.

Impossible men: idle, illiterate,Self-pitying, dirty, sly,For whose appearance even in City ParksExcuses must be made to casual passers-by.Has God's supply of tolerable husbandsFallen, in fact, so lowOr do I always over-value womanAt the expense of man?Do I?It might be so.

Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk's too big, the desk's too small, there's too much noise, there's too much quiet, it's too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.

We adopt the paradigm of a victim. We make excuses and then recite them so many times we train our subconscious mind to think they are true. We blame other people and outer conditions for our struggles, and we condemn past events for our private wars. We grow cynical and lose the curiosity, wonder, compassion and innocence we knew as kids.

Tenemos cuarenta millones de razones para fracasar, pero ni un solo pretexto»

Limitarse no es nada más que una mentalidad que demasiadas personas buenas practican diariamente hasta que, para ellos, se convierte en una realidad. Me rompe el corazón ver a tanta gente potencialmente poderosa atrapada en una historia que les hace creer que no pueden ser extraordinarias, profesional y personalmente. Debéis recordar que vuestras excusas son seductoras, vuestros miedos, mentirosos y vuestras dudas, ladronas.

excuses are seducers, your fears are liars and your doubts are thieves.

Debéis recordar que vuestras excusas son seductoras, vuestros miedos, mentirosos y vuestras dudas, ladronas

You can make excuses or you can change our world. You don't get to do both.

is nothing more than a mentality that too many good people practice daily until they believe it's reality. It breaks my heart to see so many potentially powerful human beings stuck in a story about why they can't be extraordinary, professionally and personally. You need to remember that your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars and your doubts are thieves.