Excuses Quotes

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'

There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.

Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

The Winner is always part of the answer.The Loser is always part of the problem.The Winner always has a program.The Loser always has an excuse.The Winner says, "Let me do it for you."The Loser says, "That's not my job."The Winner sees an answer for every problem.The Loser sees a problem for every answer.The Winner sees a green near every sand trapThe Loser sees two or three sand traps near every green.The Winner says, "It may be difficult but it's possible."The Loser says, "It might be possible but it's too difficult."Be a Winner.

The guy says, "When you work where I work, by the time you get home, it's late. You've got to have a bite to eat, watch a little TV, relax and get to bed. You can't sit up half the night planning, planning, planning." And he's the same guy who is behind on his car payment!

Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

The paradigm helps a person identify the thought system, which is almost always false, that is behind the rationale for the continuation of excuses. It helps them really look at excuses from an objective point of view and realize that everything they've been thinking is just as likely to be not true as it is to be true.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

Losses are inevitable, but excuses are optional.

Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, how can I possibly change, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult."

It is impossible to need excuses when the focus of your life shifts from 'What's in it for me?' to 'How can I serve?'

Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

Necessity is our quickest excuse.

The only thing an excuse gives you is an option out of the life you'd like to live.

See it as it is, not worse than it is just so you have a reason not to try.

We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.

By referring to previous struggles and using them as reasons for not getting on with your life today, you're assigning responsibility to the past for why you can't be successful or happy in the present.

99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.

Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour.

The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.

Why don’t you lift the end?” said Alf. “It’s me back, Alf,” complained Mack. “You know how it troubles me.” “No more than mine troubles me,” said Alf. “But I said it first,” said Mack.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Don't make excuses, make good.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck

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

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

Avoiding the phrase 'I don't have time...', will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.

There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

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

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.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you want your life to work at a level you've never had before, then take responsibility for it.

Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.