Quotes About Excuses

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.

We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.

Everyone knows what crappy food is: high grease, high fat... or what clean eating is. They just make excuses not to do it.

On those occasions when I missed - I think more often than not - he would watch the duck fly away, turn to me and give me a look of such uncompromising pity and scorn that I would feel compelled to apologize and make excuses. The wind moved the barrel, or A drop of water hit my eye when I shot. Of course he did not believe me but would turn back, sitting there waiting for the next shot so I could absolve myself.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

I'm sorry that I haven't won the PGA Championship. That would be something that would have pleased me very much. I suppose when I look back, I have a lot of reasons and excuses for not having won the PGA.

There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.

A lot of people in our generation like to make excuses about little things that really don't hinder them from doing what they want to. It always comes down to the work ethic.

You can blame outside factors or make excuses about why things didn't work out, but that doesn't change anything.

It's really, really easy to make excuses as to why we can't go to the gym. If you can find time to sit in front of the TV for 45 minutes, you can find time to work out.

I come up with the silliest excuses when it's time to work out. I'll be like, 'Oh no! Now I have to go and find some socks.'

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.

We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.

I've been pulled over five times for speeding - and talked my way out of every single ticket!

I'm not saying I do evil things. I'm just saying if a cop stops me when I'm speeding, sometimes - not all the time - I might get out of that ticket. Let's just say I don't have any points on my licence in Ireland, and I drive relatively quickly.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

A pet peeve of mine is when fans start griping about a fighter who lost making excuses. Of course he's making excuses. This is his profession, he's going to get back in there, and for his sanity and mental strength he needs to have a reason he can point to for his loss. If he didn't make excuses, if he didn't have a reason to think he can win next time, how could he ever fight again?

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Don't make excuses for me. I was an ass. I'm still an ass. I broke up with you, and you deserve better.

I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

When I wasn't working, I put the blame directly where it belonged - I blamed my agent. When I didn't have an agent, I spent time looking for a new agent so I would have somebody to blame.

He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.