Best 435 quotes in «excuse quotes» category

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

To look for truth in all the wrong and all the right places is the only excuse for living.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.

Victim fall in love with excuses

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

We have opted for petty determinisms - childhood trauma, genetic inheritance, social conditioning, etc. - that have made us comparatively passive. We seem to prefer to find excuses - which are really nothing more than the embrace of determinism, a sort of Stockholm syndrome relative to whatever we can claim as limitation. I am fascinated by the more enabling self-understanding. It has helped me to find my way out of the cloying comforts that are offered by prevalent psychological models.

We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

What's great about things like Kickstarter is that it enables me, finally, and without any bad feeling at all, when people come up to me now saying, "I want to do this." I can just go, "There are no excuses anymore.

We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and for each other. It is either that or continue merely to think and talk about changes that we are inviting catastrophe to make. The great obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we cannot change because we are dependant on what is wrong. But that is the addict's excuse, and we know that it will not do.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.

When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

When I hear excuses muttered from another, I'm reminded to stop repeating those of my own.

When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.

When you're a victim, you automatically have a built-in excuse for failure. When you are a victim, it's always somebody else's fault. When you're a victim, success is not possible. When you are a victim of something, you are acknowledging that you are as far as you're gonna get, and you can't get any further, because there are more powerful forces arrayed against you than the force of yourself against it.

When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful.

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any social failure-so I can say "No, I don't go out for many extracurricular activities, but I spend a lot of time writing.

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?

Winners make commitments, losers make excuses.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.

Yes I remember my sixteenth." Vitellius said "Wonderful omen! Happily chicken in my underpants." "Excuse me.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

Yeah I got a question: Any more excuses tonight, Roy?

Yes I make mistakes that I don't ever make excuses for

You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.

You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses

You can have results or excuses. Not both.

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress.

You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you.

You can't get to genius on a platform of excuses.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

You're excuses are so lame they're limping.

Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

Adult don't know what they say and what they mean once that... other moment something else... it's okay for the kids... they grown they still don't know a lot of stuff but they have excuse! - BUt what's the adult... excuse?!