Quotes About Excuses

Excuses were for those willing to concede that weakness was their strongest ally.

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

It is very challenging to adapt to life at a big club like Madrid, but I'm not the kind of person to make excuses.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

How can we put this.... Caffeinating the hamster in her head to justify the mental gymnastics.

We all know how broke-crazy-promiscuous-unreliable artists are. And if they don't have to be, then what's my excuse?

if I had enough time" is the unstated sentence "to hear myself think." In other words, we imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook—if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.

We ate the lunch with painful politeness and avoided discussing its taste. I made sure not to apologize for it. This was a rule of mine. I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make... Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is vile,...then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile- and learn from her mistakes.

Blame someone else, that's always your first instinct. And if you can't blame someone else, then start claiming the problem isn't a problem anyway. Rewrite the rules, shift the goalposts.

If it were a question of excuses and consolation, I would have preferred to melt away like smoke.

The addict's credo: It's always somebody else's fault.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses.

People who lose money always need someone to blame.

After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.

Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.