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Quotes About Excuses

For years I put up with Julián Bravo's mistreatment without calling it domestic violence, making excuses: It was an accident; he went too far because he'd had too much to drink; I provoked him; he had problems and he took them out on me, it won't happen again, he promised, he apologized. I
~ Isabel Allende
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
~ George Eliot
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
~ George Washington Carver
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
~ William Feather
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
~ La Rochefoucauld
One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
~ Jack Canfield
Illiberal feminists turn simple ideological disagreements, whether about the federal budget or the Second Amendment or anything else, into excuses to engage in character assassination, dismissing their opponents as sexists.
~ Kirsten Powers
She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.
~ Jay Asher
Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.
~ Suzanne Collins
Benno knew that trick, too: to keep from telling the truth about what you did do, simply explain all the far worse offenses that you didn't commit.
~ Suzanne Harper
When the deaths first started increasing, there were all sorts of rumors. From defective childhood vaccines to pesticides in our food—people grasped for any excuse.
~ Suzanne Young
I know how lazy I am. So if I have to go somewhere else I can't get to easily, I talk myself out of it.
~ Ari Shaffir
You just have to put in the work. Work really hard, get a good coach and a good gym. You have to have the right mindset to be a champion. Don't make excuses on going to the gym like your ankle is sore or what.
~ Stephen Thompson
There are zero excuses or delays when oneself is determined to grow.
~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz
When you heart knows it doesn't belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.
~ Luigina Sgarro
Get matured or call yourself a grandparent. Age never revised. Childish is not an excuse.
~ Radin Erus
Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.
~ Henry Ford
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
~ James Cash Penney
Face It Some people fancy that to Dodge some work that they ought to do is about the easiest possible thing to do. The truth is, however, it is always easier to walk right up to your work and — Pace It. No one but laggards dig up excuses for Dodging what they should Face.
~ Napoleon Hill
success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis." If
~ Napoleon Hill
People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.
~ Napoleon Hill
el éxito no necesita disculpas, y el fracaso no acepta excusas".
~ Napoleon Hill
el éxito no requiere disculpas y el fracaso no permite excusas».
~ Napoleon Hill