Quotes About Excuses

Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing.

I wasn't into sports when I was younger. I was one of those kids who always tried to get a note from the doctor to say I had a cold so I didn't have to go play hockey in bad weather and be miserable.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

If you're serious about changing your life, you'll find a way. If you're not, you'll find an excuse.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.

Be it China, the World Health Organization, the Bavarian Illuminati, or lizard shapeshifters, it's never Trump's responsibility. It's never Trump's fault.

I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.

It's no fun to lose, ... We haven't lost in a while and now we get to remember what it feels like. Everybody wants to be undefeated and that's what we wanted. There are no excuses.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

The most important thing is not to allow yourself to find an excuse that will let you not to do something you really want. Doing compromises makes people weaker.

God my Creator said, 'Go and make disciples.' So I don't want to sit and make excuses.

Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.

You just like me because I'm safe. There's no risk. And then you never have to try to have a real relationship, because you can use me as an excuse.

Success excuses all risks.

Procrastination is the most creative act there is.

success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

Spending too much time and effort creating excuses. Explanations do not explain. Orders do.