Quotes About Excuses

Con que ligereza y con qué defectuosos materiales edifica el hombre sus excusas!

I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

Don't make excuses for him. We all have choices, even when times are tough. Those are the defining moments of our lives.

Make big commitments, keep them, and never offer reasons when you don't make things happen.

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason." —MARK TWAIN

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses. It is self-discipline that enables you to "vote yourself off the island." It is the key to a great life and, without it, no lasting success is possible.

accept complete responsibility for yourself, your life, and your results, with no excuses

The destruction of the world depends on the willingness of the people in it to harm each other in any way necessary to achieve their own ends and to further their own causes. And we got that part down pat, don't we? We know how to hurt each other and how to think up whatever excuses we need to justify it. We're victims and executioners both.

Everyone to one extent or another must face life's trials. There will always be those who try to influence or even dominate us. We can not allow such things to be an excuse for making the wrong choices. Ultimately each of us lives our own life and is responsible for it. (Terry Goodkind The Confessor)

Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.

Sometimes we are much better at judging people based on how they treat everyone other than ourselves. We make a million excuses for why they treat us how they do.

Human beings will justify anything.

When we're trying to form and keep habits, we often search - even unconsciously - for loopholes. We look for justifications that will excuse us from keeping this particular habit in this particular situation.

People have every kind of excuse for the bad state of their lives, but the truth of the matter is that a soul is put into a situation that provides the ideal conditions for it to do its job, whatever that may be. When we take full responsibility for ourselves, we become aligned with cosmic forces that are intent on helping us grow.

She had her sonar continually set for excuses to entertain, to bring together influential and powerful people in a mix that hummed, sizzled, throbbed, and sometimes burst into flames. But I was delighted to be her excuse tonight.

If fear is holding you back in life, you must attack it, Kate. Not make excuses about why you cannot attempt what you wish to do. That you can't because you're a woman. Especially you, given that your parents educated you as a son.

When you're young, you can excuse many things, hoping they will strengthen with time.

Mentally tough athletes possess an inner strength. They often play their best when they're feeling their worst. They don't make excuses.

What is it, Lord?" What am I holding back? What am I using as an excuse for not serving You in whatever You want me to do?" And then, there by the canal, I finally had my answer. My "yes" to God had always been a "yes, but." Yes, but I'm not educated. Yes, but I'm lame. With the next breath, I did say "Yes." I said it in a brand-new way, without qualification. "I'll go, Lord

Carnell saw the purpose of Christian apologetics as removing from critics any excuse for not repenting before God. He was convinced that "men who refuse Christ because of presumed 'logical errors' in Christianity are men with a self-righteousness in the area of knowledge.