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Quotes About Excuses

Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller gods - you people see gods everywhere. Gives you an excuse for not thinking for yourselves. God is just a word. Like Fury. like demon, Just words people use for things they don't understand. Reverse it and you get dog. It's just as appropriate.
~ Joanne Harris
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
~ Jodi Picoult
Whether it be training, dieting, working out, or work ethic, for every great excuse "Not" to do something, there are 100 "better" reasons for you to do it.
~ Mark W. Boyer
Being bored is not a legitimate excuse to post 1000+ webcam photos of yourself.
~ Unknown
Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or money. Some extremely wealthy people have no class at all, while others who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it. Class is real....
~ Unknown
No excuses for being fat in the 21'st century - You fat girls disappoint me.
~ Unknown
Sometimes risk taking may involve the most simple of acts. Yet we often whip up a bag full of excuses to avoid taking action. For goodness sake, let's step beyond our security bubbles and start reaching out to those who cross our path.
~ Unknown
Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.
~ George Washington Carver
Don't waste your precious time on someone who doesn't even try. If they truly love you, they'll find ways, not excuses.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
The 'perfect' time never arrives. You're always too young or old or busy or broke or something else. If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.
~ Unknown
Success becomes a reality when aim & commitment gets bigger than excuses.
~ Anil Sinha
Promise is a self commitment for truth. Don't just be a day dreamer, keep your words and give shape of action to your promises. No excuses, no lies, and no broken words. What matters most is how you strive to make reality of a self dwelled verdict and earn the trust of all.
~ Unknown
human beings can make: an excuse. Whoever said the road to Hell was paved with good intentions had gotten it all wrong. If you looked more closely, you could see that the road to Hell was paved with excuses.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
But what should I do?' Varun was saying. 'I'm not good for anything.' 'Write a book! Pull a rickshaw! Live! Don't make excuses,' said Dr. Ila Chattopadhyay, shaking her grey hair vigorously. 'Renounce the world like Dipankar. No, he's joined a bank, hasn't he? How did you do in your exams anyway?' she added." - Vikram Seth, "A Suitable Boy
~ Vikram Seth
The road to success is never paved with excuses.
~ Unknown
Rather than clinging close to the Lord, and resolve by the grace and power of God to do better than those who have fallen, and even to help restore them, they will use anything as an excuse to stop serving God and doing what he requires of them.
~ Unknown
If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
~ Jim Rohn
My friend Chuck was supposed to help me coach the team. But he told Miss Curdy he had an after-school job. Do you know what his after-school job is? Going home and watching TV. - Steve Boswell
~ R.L. Stine
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, it was probably the fault of the electric eel. John Grey could—and for a time, did—blame the Honorable Caroline Woodford, as well. And the surgeon. And certainly that blasted poet. Still…no, it was the eel's fault
~ Diana Gabaldon
Most people justify their actions with excuses they believe cancel out their own accountability. Most people believe they had no choice to do anything other than what they did.
~ Inglath Cooper
Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?
~ Ingrid Weir
There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.
~ Isaac Asimov
'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain,"You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again."
~ Isaac Watts
Adesso che son qui, ad analizzarmi, sono colto da un dubbio: che io forse abbia amato tanto la sigaretta per poter riversare su di essa la colpa della mia incapacità?
~ Italo Svevo