Quotes About Excuses

Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.

It's part of my Special Forces training. You're taught to come up with a solutions, not look for excuses.

Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.

You've had plenty of engineering delays,' Hammond said. 'Don't blame it on the animals.

There is no such thing as undesirable work," he continued. "There are only people who see certain kinds of work as undesirable. People who use every excuse in the world to justify why they have to do work they hate to do. People who look upon their work as a punishment for who they are and where they stand in the world, rather than as an opportunity to see themselves as they really are.

We will never accomplish what God wants for our lives unless we stop making excuses for ourselves and pampering our flesh. When we get into seemingly impossible situations, we have to remember - it's not about us.

many people talk about love, to seek excuses, no one is forced to lie

Há quem prefira atribuir sua falta de êxito a uma falha do mundo em vez de ao conhecimento mediano que tenha.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

The reason I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly.

Tomorrow what? Always patching masks, making excuses for having read a bare half of what I purposed. Yet a life is passing?

Haven't you ever noticed that people who win say it's because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn't the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.

We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

No excuses," Miss Hardy said firmly. "It won't take you any time to drive out there. I'll whip up a strawberry shortcake while you're gone." "In that case," Frank said, laughing, "we'll leave right away.

May your excuses for avoiding tedious social engagements always sound credible. "... and so, having just given our cat an emergency circumcision, it seemed inappropriate to arrive late to your son's bris.

Distractions don't exist. We either procrastinate or we are committed. What we call distractions are simply an excuse to procrastinate further.

How did one rationalize belief with no proof? How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn't occur in the present day?

But you know what I think? I think you're looking for excuses to not let go. This thing, it's who you are. And no mansion, no marriage, and no mere title is going to change that." Wayne tipped his hat. "You're meant to be helping people, mate. It's what you do.

But you know what I think? I think you're looking for excuses to not let go. This ting, it's who you are. And no mansion, no marriage, and no mere title is going to change that." Wayne tipped his hat. "You're meant to be helping people, mate. It's what you do.

Rationalization begins with a look in the mirror.

There were some types of men whose wilfulness thrived on the excuses that were made for them. And they were the kind of people who never knew when they had gone far enough in their selfishness, who never knew when to stop. The more allowances that were made for them, the more they presumed.