Quotes About Excuses

Most therapy programs do little more than provide psychopaths with new excuses and rationalizations for their behavior and new insights into human vulnerability. They may learn new and better ways of manipulating other people, but they make little effort to change their own views and attitudes or to understand that other people have needs, feelings, and rights. In particular, attempts to teach psychopaths how to "really feel" remorse or empathy are doomed to failure.

Most therapy programs do little more than provide psychopaths with new excuses and rationalizations for their behavior and new insights into human vulnerability. They may learn new and better ways of manipulating other people.

Excuses satisfy no one and apologies make everyone uncomfortable

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet.

I know a lot of people who don't want to take responsibility for their lives. It's easier to blame somebody else when something goes wrong than accept their part in whatever happened.

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

Her god is just like a Chinese parent, never running out of excuses to love a son.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.

You were supposed to be keeping an eye on the place," Donegan said. "I was," Gracious yawned. "You were asleep." "I was resting my eyes." "You were snoring." "I was exercising my lungs.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.

Maybe all of this was prevarication and excuses and not an afterword at all.

The walls of your comfort zone are lovingly decorated with your lifelong collection of favorite excuses.

You can have excuses or you can have success; you can't have both.

Where there's a will there's a way; we just prefer to pretend there isn't a way so we don't have to take responsibility and do the uncomfortable stuff required to grow.

You can have your excuses or you can have success. You can't have both. Whichever outcome you train your mind on dictates the reality you see before you.

Hesitation is the crack that all your favorite excuses will burst through, drown out your resolve, and sweep you back to the safety of your comfort zone.

We are so attached to the unhelpful familiar, in fact, that we will spend our valuable, very finite time here on Earth crafting excuses to keep ourselves right where we are, instead of leaping into the glorious unknown and growing into who we're really meant to be.

It's not fair," Davis protested. "After Nick wins, you'll just say conditions were different when Hayden came down, and that's what made her slower.Like,it started snowing." "Or it stopped snowing," Gavin said. "Or the wind was harder," Davis said. "Or the wind was softer ," Gavin said. "Girls will whine about anything.

If a man must make excuses for himself, continually argue with himself that he is a man, then he is better off dead.