Quotes About Excuses

All you have to do is convince the sanctimonious that they are free of all sin and they'll start throwing stones, or bombs, with gusto. In fact, it doesn't take much, because they can be convinced with the bare minimum of encouragement and excuses.

Don't learn how to find excuses for not writing before you learn how to write. That's a privilege of professionals and you have to earn it.

If wishes and buts were candy and nuts, you'd all have a Merry Christmas.

When you've been hurt, you don't make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That's his mama's job.

Why don't you run away and leave everybody else to clean up the mess? Then you can get on your high horse as usual and blame everybody but yourself.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't expect an artist to give me credit. I know that they're gonna take the credit for everything. But, it's my job to give myself that exposure and not make excuses, not grow bitter.

Aber irgendwie, irgrendwo ist das Abenteuer weg. Jetzt sucht man Ausflüchte und schreibt halt Stücke oder konstruiert eine Prosa, die die Leute langweilt, weil sie sagen Das ist mir zu blöd, drei Seiten ein Satz.

Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own; and, even while they sit down and weep by the waters of Babylon, invent excuses for the oppression which prompts their tears.

The built-in excuse has become as standard in discussions of black crime as it is unsubstantiated, except by peer consensus among the intelligentsia. The phrase "troubled youth" is a common example of the unsubstantiated but built-in excuse, since those who use that phrase usually feel no need to offer any specific evidence about the specific individuals they are talking about, who may be creating big trouble for others, while enjoying themselves in doing so.

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. —George Washington Carver scientist

Uncertainty is where new value is created. Everything you want in life is on the other side of all your excuses for not trying.

there are two types of people in this world: those who make excuses and those who get the job done. No excuses. You are 100 percent responsible for anything that has your name on it.

Winners win losers make excuses.

Worthless people blame their karma.

Oh, Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

Los pretextos los convertimos en "explicaciones lógicas"; los miedos preferimos llamarlos "precauciones acertadas" y las pobres expectativas han pasado a ser "una manera más realista de ver la vida".

Meg invited me to come again, but I always had reasons why I couldn't: my schedule was busy, bus fare wasn't cheap. Both of which were true, even if they weren't the truth.

Excuses are merely the cherry topping of an E.coli-infested sundae.

But, even after two years, all we have is a great process on paper that no one follows and a tool that no one uses. When I pester people to use them, all I get are complaints and excuses.

The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.

We have been better taught than the world. We cannot make the excuses of the world if we fail.

there's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was I' their boots.

She'd been around long enough to know that it was a rare man who fully accepted responsibility for his actions, who didn't offer any excuses.