Quotes About Excuses

Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter, but do not admit the excuses, except in courtesy; as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon, the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.

You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can't do both.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

It was our fault, and our very great fault — and now we must turn it to use; We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get...

The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse.

The things you want to do are all up to you— Excuses are sabotage.

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Excuses are leaks in a boat. When you cover one, another pops up, and it's even bigger. It's hard to keep the boat repaired and get safely to shore if you have an excuse mind-set.

Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures.

Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures. One such excuse is, only dishonest people get ahead. This is also a lie. MAKE

There's always a gap between "what I have now" and "what I would like." And that gap is all of your excuses.

We love our excuses. They are just as much our babies as our ideas are.

Each excuse let me learn about myself, let me discover entire worlds of surprising possibilities. Each one led me to more and more love.

There's always a gap between "what I have now" and "what I would like." And that gap is all of your excuses. All it takes to close the gap is to be creative and work your way through the excuses. I repeat: this is all it takes.

Remember to always tune your inner ear so you can listen for (and separate from each other) both the good reason and the real reason when anyone (including yourself) gives you an excuse.

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.

A life filled with excuses is defeated, unproductive, and miserable.

When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.

...atheism leaves no room for excuses...

I'll be quite for now because I make mistakes too... but once The Perfect Almighty One judges you, there are no excuses.

I used to spill things on my t-shirts, leaving oily dark spots down the front that I would try to hide with loose-fitting dress shirts. Nowadays all I have to do is tell everyone my son did it. I skirt the 'slob' moniker and instead look like a dedicated father who doesn't even have time to change.

I make no excuses. Stefan Struve was the man that night. He earned his win fair and square.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.