Quotes About Excuses

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.

A lot of times people use the excuse that they don't want to hurt another person's feelings. This is always a lie. If you ever catch yourself thinking this, what's really happening is that you're protecting yourself from your own feelings. You're avoiding what you will feel when they get upset. It is the coward's way out, and it simply delays having all your cards on the table.

You clutch your comfortable excuses, saying, Someday I'll be brave, it won't take a lot, just give me one more chance and this time I'll grab it. .

The other thing he railed against, after 'Mexican time' and lame excuses, was bad teeth. Mexicans could not afford bad teeth if they expected gringos to take them seriously.

Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: "When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror." In other words, he becomes upset and accusatory when his partner exhibits the predictable effects of chronic mistreatment, and then he adds insult to injury by ridiculing her for feeling hurt by him. He even uses her emotional injuries as excuses to mistreat her further.

Abusive men are masters of excuse making. In this respect they are like substance abusers, who believe that everyone and everything except them is responsible for their actions.

Abusiveness can be thought of as a recipe that involves a consistent set of ingredients: control, entitlement, disrespect, excuses, and justifications (including victim blaming)—elements that are always present, often accompanied by physical intimidation or violence.

When we hear these kinds of excuses from a drunk, we assume they are exactly that—excuses. We don't consider an active alcoholic a reliable source of insight. So why should we let an angry and controlling man be the authority on partner abuse?

A whole lifetime could be spent making excuses, giving in, feeling guilty, resolving to do better, mentally beating myself up for not sticking to my resolve, feeling like a failure, and then resigning myself to the fact that things can't change.

It is easier to make excuses than changes.

He had simply made up his mind to go some time before, and that anyone looking for excuses to leave can always find them.

This...is a new crutch to help you make excuses for your meaningless, impotent existence.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

Insecure people have to make excuses and put others down to feel confident. Confidence isn't walking into a room with your nose in the air, and thinking you are better than everyone else, it's walking into a room and not having to compare yourself to anyone in the first place.

Instead of making a lot of excuses, make a little progress. Instead of looking back with regret, step forward with enthusiasm. Choose to view your life based on the best of what is possible. Choose to define yourself based on the person you know you are capable of becoming. If you believe it, you can do it.

Mistakes are committed by strong as well by weak people. Strong people has courage to admit them and to make them correct, while weak people looks for an excuse.

Mistakes are committed by STRONG people and WEAK people as well... Only difference is STRONG people admit their mistake. Whereas WEAK ones look for excuses...