Quotes About Excuses

The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.

But excuses didn't mean anything in the end. What _actually happened_ in the end was what mattered.

But excuses didn't mean anything in the end. What actually happened in the end was what mattered.

People kept on calling. At first Armando told them that Jeff was in the bathroom. Then, when people started telling him that Jeff was in the bathroom a lot, he started telling them that Jeff had Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Excusing our momentary lapses as an outlier event triggers a self-indulgent inconsistency—which is fatal for change.

We can't admit that we need to change—either because we're unaware that a change is desirable, or, more likely, we're aware but have reasoned our way into elaborate excuses that deny our need for change.

An excuse explains why we fell short of expectations after the fact. Our inner beliefs trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage lasting change by canceling its possibility. We employ these beliefs as articles of faith to justify our inaction and then wish away the result. I call them belief triggers.

We use our brains too little, and when we do, it is only to make excuses for our reflexes and our instincts.

Always fighting, arguing, and mouthing off to teachers and other pupils alike. But it was never her fault, it was always someone else's fault.

This was the species whose main excuse for not doing something was 'if only I had more time'. Perfectly valid until you realised they did have more time. Not eternity, granted, but they had tomorrow. And the day after tomorrow. And the day after the day after tomorrow. In fact I would have to write 'the day after' thirty thousand times before a final 'tomorrow' in order to illustrate the amount of time on a humans hands.

I'm saying people can be real creative when it comes to ducking responsibility.

Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.

There is a sort of maleficence in history: it solicits men, tempts them so that they believe they are moving in its direction, and then suddenly it unmasks, and events change and prove that there was another possibility. The men whom history abandons in this way and who see themselves simply as accomplices suddenly find themselves the instigators of a crime to which history has inspired them. And they are unable to look for excuses or to excuse themselves from even a part of the responsibility.

Što ima više svetih skloništa iza kojih se ljudi kriju, sve je više prostora za ljudsko zlo. ?ovjek uvijek izmisli razlog izvan sebe, da bi se oslobodio odgovornosti i krivice.

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

Life is about choices; it's not about excuses. Excuses only trap us into believing that we cannot take control of our own lives.

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

Hacía tiempo que Sophie había llegado a la conclusión de que a los adultos se les daba realmente mal inventar excusas creíbles

As for the looming defeat itself, she shrugged it off: it was Reince Priebus's fault, not hers.

Still, power provides its own excuses for social lapses.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually just the pretexts for it.

Idiots of the world listen up:forty is the end of the race, the deadline of deadlines and the point at which excuses are no longer permitted.

Thatz: "Why'd you have to get him all worked up? He'll drag us into it. Rune: "You're just lazy, Thatz.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.