Quotes About Excuses

What better way of avoiding work than going to a workshop?

Crutchley made no excuses. "The fact must be faced that we had an adequate force placed with the very purpose of repelling surface attack and when the surface attack was made, it destroyed our force.

Frau-Sein bedeutete nichts weiter als die Erlaubnis, sich jederzeit für unzuständig zu erklären. Egal, ob es um das Wechseln einer Glühbirne, das Töten eines Tiers oder die Entsorgung eines Querulanten ging. Die Weiber riefen "Kann ich nicht!", versteckten das Gesicht in den Händen und sahen später wieder hin, um mit Vorwürfen anzufangen, angesichts dessen, was der Mann getan hatte.

He thinks and speaks with a ruthlessness that makes no attempt to find dialectical excuses for the eternal uncertainty of humankind. Anyone who claims that truth is dependent on usefulness, anyone who openly admits that knowing and believing are essentially the same for limited beings such as humans, is clearly a nihilist in a class of his own.

If you play a bad game, you can't say it was because you were injured.

I don't like to give in to injuries. I don't like to use them as excuses. Everybody has them.

It fascinates me that there's this instinct to blame something else when you're embarrassed or caught.

If it's important to you, you will find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse.

You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

As we write down our goals, we erase our excuses.

Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key.

Upon marrying, we need most to pray for one of two things in our partners--the love that blinds, or the good-nature that excuses.

Grasp the simplicity and power of no excuses and you have guaranteed success.

One of these games is called, "Okay, okay, I'm guilty." This game is to make it look like you have taken responsibility for yourself when you haven't. Admitting you are guilty is a great way to avoid being responsible.

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge," Aomame said. "Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire's budget deficits. It has no moral significance.

Enough of your prattle, the old man said. I cannot abide people who conjure up a raft of excuses, disparaging the efforts of those who have gone out of their way to help them. Such people are common trash.

I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves

But listen to me--there are times in life when those kinds of excuses don't cut it anymore. Situations when nobody cares whether you're suited for the task at hand or not.

I made my excuses and left, thinking, really, after a certain age, people are just going to do what they're going to do and you're either going to accept them as they are or you're not.

As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.