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Quotes About Excuses

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
When you live with integrity and value your word over your excuses, you have the power to speak your dreams into existence.
~ Hal Elrod
Your excuses are nothing more than the lies your fears have sold you.
~ Robin Sharma
Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?
~ Brian Tracy
Most people use excuses to cover up mistakes, but it takes less time to do something right the first time.
~ Robert Cheeke
It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.
~ Paulo Coelho
Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, how can I possibly change, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes
~ Wayne Dyer
It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I don't even have a dog. I tell people I'm allergic so they won't think less of me. Instead I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of responsibility required.
~ Anna Quindlen, Rise and Shine
No problem is so big and difficult that it can't be blamed on somebody else.
~ Christopher Titus
Excuses are a promise of repetition.
~ Stefan Molyneux
Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
~ Billy Bragg
For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.
~ John le Carre
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.
~ Florence Nightingale
When you´re lazy, you find lots of interesting excuses.
~ Alin Sav
Excuses cost you more than they buy you.
~ TemitOpe Ibrahim
stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the
~ Will Schwalbe
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
~ William Arthur Ward
For the French, talent excuses much, genius excuses all, and prudishness is inexcusable.
~ David Downie
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
~ David E. Kelley
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
~ David Frum
We are not only losing the war with enemies whose stated goal is our destruction, we are led by a political party that constantly finds excuses not to take these enemies seriously, and never has to account for its disgraceful conduct because its potential opposition is mute.
~ David Horowitz
People who blame things rarely change things. Blame is an unassailable change-avoidance strategy.
~ Andy Stanley