Quotes About Excuses

Perhaps it's always true that when you wreck your own life you blame everyone else for your misfortune.

But this awakening of sensitivity for the martyrdom of childhood has far-reaching consequences: Suddenly it is no longer possible to regard cruelty, perversion, and crime as a form of upbringing for our own good; we are forced to come to a decision and stop finding excuses for crime.

There are only two options – make progress or make excuses.

Justificarea tiranului pentru crime ÅŸi scuza prostului pentru eÅŸecuri este destinul.

He blamed every fucker available excepting, of course, the one who was actually to blame, the one sitting in his saddle and getting colder, hungrier, and more lost with every unpleasant moment. 'Shit!' he roared at nothing.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be.

My curse on fucking causes! Nothing but big excuses. I never saw men act with such ignorance, violence and self-serving malice as when energised by a just cause.

Shake off the self-pity. Don't make excuses. Don't blame the past. Don't blame your parents. Don't blame your circumstances. They may be the reason you are where you are, but that doesn't give you the right to stay there.

were created to excel. There is potential in you right now just waiting to come out. You have gifts that will cause new doors to open, talent that will bring new opportunities. Get rid of low expectations. Quit making excuses to settle where you are.

The odds may be against you, but the Most High God is for you. His favor on your life will cause you to go where you could not go on your own. If you're going to be a barrier breaker, you have to get rid of excuses. If you're going to be a barrier breaker, you have to get rid of excuses.

Don't give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?

We are all manufacturers — some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses.

The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse.

If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.

Leibniz invented the term "theodicy" (in its French and Latin forms) to mean the justification of God's ways to man—or, as an unbeliever might put it, the art of making excuses on behalf of God. Among

McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.

Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

Talent is not enough. It's a mental game. You have to deal with frustration when you don't play, you have to deal with the pressure. There are no excuses.

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses.

I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse.

She would be all out of breath and apologize fervently for being late, as though her lateness depended on such a rare and extenuating matrix of once-in-a-lifetime circumstances that it could never possibly happen again. And the next time she would be just as late.

Desperation is God's hammer: It demolishes the stronghold of fear and shatters the chains of our excuses. When desperation exceeds our fears, progress begins.

es una característica de los humanos que, cuando nos enfrentamos a nuestros problemas personales, las cosas más íntimas son las que mejor resisten el análisis de nuestra lógica. Tendemos a buscar excusas a nuestro alrededor, a acusar a todo y a todos, menos al verdadero problema que nos reconcome por dentro.