Quotes About Excuses

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making excuses, that's the day you start your move to the top.

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong."

No one got forever. And it was a fucking crime to waste what you were given. Enough, Qhuinn thought. Enough with the excuses, and the avoidance, and the trying to be someone, anyone else. Even if he got shanked, even if his precious little ego and his dumb-ass little heart got shattered into a million pieces, it was time to stop the bullshit. It was time to be a male.

Martin heaved a sigh of relief when the door closed behind the laundryman. He was becoming anti-social. Daily he found it a severer strain to be decent with people. Their presence perturbed him, and the effort of conversation irritated him. They made him restless, and no sooner was he in contact with them than he was casting about for excuses to get rid of them.

I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

Kids are the ultimate trump card: a way to get out of co-op board meetings or lunch with a friend you don't want to see or your brother-in-law's set at a comedy club. It's fair to use your kids as an excuse to sidestep what you don't want to do; it's less fair to blame them for not being able to achieve what you do want to do.

The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as 'reasonable' as we like to think they are.

We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse.

He who cannot dance says the stage is not ready

Sorry, I'd love to hang out with you but this alcohol isn't going to drink itself into incoherence and liver failure

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.

It sounds to me like you're making excuses, Jeb said quietly. You're trying to convince yourself, and you're using me to listen to yourself talk.