Quotes About Excuses

Tinham sido três tentativas, três falhanços, três restaurantes. Felizmente ainda era novo, e portanto podia descansadamente culpar outros fatores pela minha baixa percentagem de sucesso: maus donos, má localização, clientes feios, decoração horrível… Não me incomodava. Ainda tinhas esperanças.

Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states. Use your body as a tool to snap yourself into a place of sheer will, determination, and commitment. Face your challenges head on with the core belief that problems are just speed bumps on the road to your dreams. And from that place, when you take massive action—with an effective and proven strategy—you will rewrite your history.

The only reason we don't have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can't have them.

Lord Fawn, you know, is very particular. In sober earnest one cannot tell how these things operate; but they do operate gradually. One's friends are sometimes very glad of an excuse for not befriending one

Or is this just what you do? You start to get involved, get scared when the emotions are too much, and then dream up any excuse you can to run? Or to invite the other person to dump you?

Let's make it short and sweet," Mama interrupted. "In other words, you won't have it done by Passover? In that case I'll send for the other shoemaker." "Why shouldn't I have them done?" he said, wriggling. "For you, I'll put off the rest of the work. Your shoes, with God's help, will have to be finished for Passover. And no excuses!

But it's as my mother says: "When a girl can't dance, she blames the musicians …

Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn't a good side. There isn't an excuse. (Mom - to Lara Lington)

The end excuses any evil.

Twaddle, rubbish, and gossip is what people want, not action....The secret of life is to chatter freely about all one wishes to do and how one is always being prevented--and then do nothing.

Action requires courage," Thomas said. "Inaction only requires excuses.

Most people […] prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's always due to something or somebody else

I think you have a case of either 'testitis' or 'I Didn't Do My Homework Syndrome'. It's common in the Spring.

Every so seemed/called failure is traceable to an excuse. That infers, there can be no failure until there is an excuse. I mean, it takes an excuse to be/remain a failure in anything in life. Yes of course, whoever that often gives an excuse is as well likely to achieve little things or nothing in his/her lifetime. So, hence forth do give less excuses or no excuse at all.

If I'd known things would end this way, we could have gone and done all that stuff instead of making excuses about my job, about how your mother couldn't spare the time

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.

Homecoming's stupid." And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.

One thing I realized, I was making too many excuses and not taking responsibility for how I was playing.

All kinds of excuses have been given by governments for not implementing this recommendation like food price inflation. But the question is, do the farmers of this country, who constitute nearly half of the working population, also not need to eat?

As soon as a man begins to make excuses, the time has come when he might be doing that from which he excuses himself.

And the behaviour of the cat was somewhat peculiar. It was soon noticed that when there was work to be done the cat could never be found. She would vanish for hours on end, and then reappear at meal-times, or in the evening after work was over, as though nothing had happened. But she always made such excellent excuses , and purred so affectionately , that it was impossible not to believe in her good intentions.

but any writer who adopts the totalitarian outlook, who finds excuses for persecution and the falsification of reality, thereby destroys himself as a writer. There is no way out of this. No tirades against 'individualism' and 'the ivory tower', no pious platitudes to the effect that 'true individuality is only attained through identification with the community', can get over the fact that a bought mind is a spoiled mind

99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.

99% OF FAILURE COME FROM PEOPLE WHO MAKE EXCUSES