#Excuses Quotes

“And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.”

“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.”

“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?'”

“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.”

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

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

“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."”

“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”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.”

“People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.”

“Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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!”

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

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

“Losses are inevitable, but excuses are optional.”

“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.”

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

“Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.”

“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.”

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

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

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

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