Best 264 quotes in «excuses quotes» category

Accepting reality requires wisdom, impatience, cowardice, or laziness.

A good man never makes excuses, a smart man is never in a position to need one.

Aiden is such a beautiful dream, I'd rather invent a million excuses for his absence that accept he never felt the same about me - Amber

A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies.

A leader who accepts his own excuses cannot help others overcome theirs.

A life hidden behind the veil of excuses leaves behind a blank page, but a life with the brilliant light of purpose shone upon it fills every page with wisdom.

A life filled with excuses is defeated, unproductive, and miserable.

All you have is today. Never mourn for tomorrow that is past and gone. You don’t deserve to starve today of its pleasure and treasure. Feel happy!

An archer must never blame a target for missing it.

An entrepreneur is born, when a person has more reasons to drive his dreams against his excuses.

An excuse will not wake up early

An excuse is the most expensive brand of self defeat you will ever purchase.

An uninspired mind creates a lack of energy for the body, resulting in a lack of performance filled with excuses.

4 Don’t Die™ Principles: • Change your awareness and your perspective changes. • You teach what you need to learn. • You can make excuses or you can achieve your goals, but you cannot do both. • Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

And do you know why we have not the power to attain this Stoic ideal? It is because we refuse to believe in our power. Nay, of a surety, there is something else which plays a part: it is because we are in love with our vices; we uphold them and prefer to make excuses for them rather than shake them off. We mortals have been endowed with sufficient strength by nature, if only we use this strength, if only we concentrate our powers and rouse them all to help us or at least not to hinder us. The reason is unwillingness, the excuse, inability.

A person who buys excuses will soon attempt to sell them to others.

As always excuses come, always there is some kind of excuse.... So many excuses so far sound like, "Please get out..."!

Ash went over to the closet, and Sloane maintained his stoic expression. There was no way Dex would be hiding in the closet. It was too obvious. Ash opened the door, looking unimpressed. “There’s a fuckwit naked in your closet.” Dex looked up at Ash with wide eyes. “This isn’t what it looks like. I dropped some change, it rolled under the closet door, and when I went to pick it up, my clothes fell off. True story.

As one who wills, and then unwills his will, Changing his mind with every changing whim, Till all his best intentions come to nil, So I stood havering in that moorland dim, While through fond rifts of fancy oozed away The first quick zest that filled me to the brim.

Anyone can find an excuse. It takes a special person to find the time

Anyone can have an off decade.

As the four young women proceeded to a hallway leading toward the morning room, they encountered Lord St. Vincent, who was strolling in the opposite direction. Elegant and dazzling in his formal clothes, he paused and regarded Evie with a caressing smile. “You appear to be escaping from something,” he remarked. “We are,” Evie told her husband. St. Vincent slid his arm around Evie’s waist and asked in a conspiratorial whisper, “Where are you going?” Evie thought for a moment. “Somewhere to powder Daisy’s nose.” The viscount gave Daisy a dubious glance. “It takes all four of you? But it’s such a little nose.” “We’ll only be a few minutes, my lord,” Evie said. “Will you make excuses for us?” St. Vincent laughed gently. “I have an endless supply, my love,” he assured her.

A successful person doesn't make excuses. They deal with reality.

Becoming limitless involves mental agility; the ability to quickly grasp and incorporate new ideas and concepts with confidence.

Believing and investing in yourself is the best way to shift your thinking from a paradigm of excuses to one of solutions.

Better the poorest of real faith at work than the best ideal of it left in the region of speculation.

Bold people dance happily when they are confronted with life’s adventures... they see themselves going through with smiles... Give no excuse for being a coward. Be bold!

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.

But in any case, validity, offender self-reports have dubious validity, especially when the offender's self-interest is at stake. The only rule for deception in sex offenders I have ever found is this: If it is in the offender's best interests to lie, and if he can do it and not get caught, he will lie. Being victimized as a child has become a ready excuse for perpetrating child molestation. The offender who claims he himself was victimized gets seen as less of a "monster" than one who wasn't a victim, and he gains much more empathy and support. It is hard to trust self-reports of sex offenders about abuse in their past when such reports are in their best interest. Only a few studies on this topic have used objective measures, and they have found very different results.[102]

Because my demon told me to” isn’t a generally accepted reason,

But is the word used before you rationalize why the situation is not your fault nor responsibility.

Change makers take risks and are ready to die for excellence than to give excuses and live for mediocrity.

Change occurs when excuses pivot to execution.

Colin rubbed his neck with his hand, regarding me like a hopeful puppy dog. "Are you sure you wouldn't prefer just to fling something at me and get it over with?" I leaned back against the cushioned back of the banquette, folded my arms across my chest, and waited. "Dempster?" I prompted. Colin considered for a moment, contemplated the olive plate, considered some more, and came out with, "We don't get on." "That much I figured out on my own." Colin shifted restlessly in his seat. "It's a long story." I patted the side of the glass carafe. "We have a large carafe of wine." Colin let himself relax into a rueful grin. "I really am sorry. I didn't mean to drag you into it." "Since I've already been dragged," I suggested, grasping the carafe with two hands and tipping it forwards over his glass, "it would be nice to know what's going on." "Thanks." Colin took the glass I held out to him. He raised it an ironic salute. "Cheers.

Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now!

Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved.

Don’t be lazy. Hard work brings happiness. There is no other time to avoid being a lazy. Take that decision now. Kick laziness out.

A person either buys his dream by surrendering his excuses or he buys his excuses by surrendering his dream.

Compromised commitments today lead to creative excuses tomorrow.

Do it today! It will spare you the effort of finding excuses tomorrow.

Don't ever accuse anyone of being full of pride, undignified and unprofessional when simply they are wise to move away from dishonest schemers. Dishonesty comprise too of layers of lies simply casted for impressive appearances. There are times too that corrupt hearts have their own confused, modified, self-affirming, pro-self interest business inclined definitions of "professionalism, integrity, dignity and pride.

Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.

Don't make excuses. They're pointless.

Don't make excuses for why you're not doing what you have already deemed critical to your success.

Don't say you have started when you remain static. It takes just a step to start an arduous errand! Unleash yourself and take the courageous step tactically to accomplish the vision. When you have to do it, dare to do it!

Don't stop believing, Don't be afraid of change, Don't underestimate yourself, Don't make excuses, Don't cheat yourself, Don't ever ever STOP!

Don’t try to prove to everybody that the reason why you can’t is that nobody could. It’s no excuse. You can break the tradition by being the first person to make it happen!

Don't use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!!!

Don’t wait for perfect conditions because life has no perfect conditions. The secret to success lies in your ability to do more with less.