Quotes about excuses
Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Not now” easily grows to become “never” You either do it now or lose it forever!
Lorii Myers - The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
Becoming limitless involves mental agility the ability to quickly grasp and incorporate new ideas and concepts with confidence.
Andrea Goeglein -
The choice [is} a familiar one stop making excuses and shift [your] perspective.
Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
The main factors that sponsor the abuse of time include procrastination and excuses. Procrastination makes you to shift a task that you can do now into the unseen future excuses are the reasons why you shift that task.
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
You have no reason to give up if you haven't tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first you don't succeed Try no other option Just try again with a better approach!
Mason Cooley -
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Roddy Doyle -
If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.
Farshad Asl - and Clarity
We create excuses that stand between us and other people excuses that separate us from the happiness and the prospects these people can present.
Roy T. Bennett -
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.
John Madden -
We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.
Lara Giddings -
There will always be excuses, arguments, and questions of timing when moving on difficult and controversial issues.
Yami Gautam -
Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.
Diane von Furstenberg -
I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.
Julia Child -
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.
Lesli Linka Glatter -
We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time it's just that most of them are white males.
Benjamin Franklin -
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Serj Tankian -
We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Serj Tankian -
We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Mitt Romney -
Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
Auliq Ice -
The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born.
Anna C. Salter - And Other Sex Offenders
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
Lorii Myers - Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success
No one will ever blame you for trying to get it right.
Frank Sonnenberg - Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
You’ll never learn anything or impress anyone by making excuses and diverting blame.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés - Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time. She has more excuses than dogs have hairs. She must just simply dive in and stand not knowing what will happen next.
Miya Yamanouchi - Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Making excuses as to why you cannot do something based on what you don't have, or what hasn't happened yet, only serves to hold you back even further. WAIT FOR NOTHING & NO-ONE.
Orrin Woodward -
Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.
Orrin Woodward -
A person who buys excuses will soon attempt to sell them to others.
Paul Murray - The Mark and the Void
I’m just saying that once that have an excuse, people will do anything. They do what they are told, and they take their money and they think it’s all okay because it’s just their job, while their real self is what happens after work, when they’re bouncing a baby on the knee, or writing poems about snowflakes or whatever.
Shannon L. Alder -
If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse.
Orrin Woodward -
You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream.
Munia Khan -
Our politicians always show lame excuse to defend their cripple decisions.
Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Procrastination and excuses really have the energy to make your picture small and blurred if you offer them that image!
Tony Curl -
Getting defensive doesn't hide the fact that you know you could have done better. Stop putting your energy into your excuses.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah - Philosophy and life
we were not born the same and we are all not born with the same abilities and capabilities, but no matter what seed God has given to us, be it small or big, He expects a good returns from us in the end and we must endeavor to be good stewards and managers of our abilities and capabilities regardless of where we live and the challenges we face!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah - Philosophy and life
we were not born the same, we are all not born with the same abilities and capabilities, but no matter what seed God has given to us, be it small or big, He expects a good returns from us in the end and we must endeavor to be good stewards and managers of our abilities and capabilities regardless of where we live and the challenges we face!
Donna Lynn Hope -
We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline?
Donna Lynn Hope -
I don’t make excuses, so don’t make excuses for me. When I’m being an ass, it’s because I have one.
Wade D. Sadlier -
The immature person makes excuses to avoid the responsibility of his own potential. -Wade D. Sadlier
Lorii Myers - The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
Put some action on your good intentions!
Lorii Myers - The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
When aspirations are perceived to be achievable, ambition and drive can erase excuses.
Asa Don Brown -
Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved.
Orrin Woodward -
You won't find your dream until you lose your excuses.
Israelmore Ayivor -
You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment.
Orrin Woodward -
A person either buys his dream by surrendering his excuses or he buys his excuses by surrendering his dream.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and still leave in darkness.
Pushpa Rana - Just the Way I Feel
There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine
Terry Pratchett -
When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.
Lorii Myers - The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
The BIG push means being able to develop and sustain momentum toward your goal; it is the process of actively replacing excuses with winning habits, the ultimate excuses blockers. Moreover, it is being willing to go to the wall for what you want or believe in, to push beyond your previous mental and physical limits, no matter what it takes.
Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
No more excuses or procrastination! Stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals.
Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action!
Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
It’s called an ‘accomplishment’, not an ‘intent-ishment’. You’ve got to BE it to SEE it. NO MORE EXCUSES - Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there!
Israelmore Ayivor -
Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.
Habeeb Akande -
Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke - The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide
Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is made of the world only through relationship between action and reaction, symptom and cause. No change is possible without analysis of accountability.
Lauren Oliver - Panic
But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.
Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich
Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.
Orrin Woodward -
To buy excuses, a person must sell his dream.
Tsem Tulku Rinpoche - 108 Ways to Grab My Apples
Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN...
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
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!
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
This is the day the Lord himself has made! Do something on it before it begins to fade! Do something you have said! Do it before it's time for bed!
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
True blessing comes in the dress of sweats, never delaying to wave bye to the excuses and procrastination. True blessing lies in hard work!
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Your later may be late. Never postpone your salvation HOURS to tomorrow. If it's not now, it may be never. The days are not OURS!
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Someday", you said you'd do it yesterday; Yesterday, you said you'll do it today. Today, if you push it to tomorrow, it's likely tomorrow, you'll shift it to "Someday"! Do it now!
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
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!
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn’t mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!
Israelmore Ayivor -
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!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
Instead of saying maybe in May, let May be!
Gypsie M. Holley -
I don't have time is the worst possible excuse for I'd rather be doing something else. You MAKE time! Whether it be family, friends or an activity, like reading it's all in what you WANT to do. The heartbreaking moment is when you have extended time & devotion sometimes years with someone you knew to be worthy who can return it & they CHOOSE not to.
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
The first attempt may fail, but it does not create room for excuses.
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
It's said that people who give excuses for the reason not do something always formulate those excuses, waiting for the reason to surface to justify their excuses!
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
You don't need to think deeply before reaching out to the excuses to give. Just lose interest in it and you gain excuses at no cost!
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
Take excuses and procrastination as your enemies. Let them see you and frown their faces and bypass you without greetings. You will excel if you don’t internalize the habit of giving excuses.
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
If you really want succeed in what you do, obey this rule;... Wake up very early, go to bed lately... Occupy your time usefully!
Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Nothing is too difficult unless you decide to keep shifting it to tomorrow till you can’t do it any longer.
Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Where procrastination and excuses reign, success is highly missed than delayed. Opportunity they say comes but once. You must therefore be prepared to tap every good opportunity that appears on your way
Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Decide to dream big dreams and make them happen. Never let procrastination and excuses squeeze your dreams to become small. Do it early and do it big!
Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
You can become good at procrastinating your opportunities by giving flimsy excuses. But never forget that it is rather your success that you are skipping away.
Andrea T. Goeglein - Don't Die Waiting to Be Brave
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.
Andrea Gogelein -
You can make excuses or you can achieve your goals, but you can't do both.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.
Israelmore Ayivor -
Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now!
Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance.
Sunday Adelaja -
People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase
Sunday Adelaja -
People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase is practically inevitable.
John C. Maxwell - The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
Excuses will become self-refuting. No man who does not believe that Jesus is the perfect, sinless Son of God can, in his desperation and love for sin, reasonably use and misconstrue Jesus' words that unless a Christian is perfect, then that Christian cannot judge sin. Otherwise this non-believer is unconsciously entertaining a belief that Jesus, unlike any other man to ever live, was indeed perfect and sinless in His judgments and therefore that Christian is supposed to be like Him.
Richard Rohr - Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
When people say they're too busy, ask them If they'll have time to die, and see If dead's gonna give a damn.
Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights.But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora.To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain.What's your excuse?
Lorii Myers - The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
Excuses fall silent behind self-control, focus, and direction.
Allie Burke - Paper Souls
What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.
M.F. Moonzajer -
One of the main reasons and excuses behind every religious failure is a” FALSE PROMISE”.
Auliq Ice - The Last and the Lost
A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
If you could not do much in the month of April with five letters, think of what really you can do with the month of May with three letters before you open the door of the month of June with four letters. Which is the break time for the entire twelve months of the year. Until you clearly understand how you are spending the year, you shall finish spending it and ponder over how you spent it, year after year! No one is absolutely free from excuses and the challenges of life. You just have to do som
Willis R. Whitney -
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do something, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons
If we were to behave half as well as we believe others ought to behave, we might prove ourselves as grand in character as excuses and justifications prevent us from being.
S.C. Parris - The Immortal's Guide
Make no excuses for the devils that will not excuse you of their burdens, Miss Crane." - Darien Nicodemeus; Chapter Sixteen - The Giant's Return
Steven Brown -
Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself.