quotations about excuses
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
THOMAS SZASZ
The Second Sin
The dog ate my notebook with all my good excuses.
MINDEE ARNETT
The Nightmare Affair
Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it!
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You
If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Our culture has become so tolerant of excuses that the difference between a reason and an excuse is not likely to be easily noticed. By obscuring the difference between the two, we unwittingly act as though our actions have no reasons, or that the only acceptable reason is one in which someone must look bad.
CHRISTOPHER PETERSON & TRACY A. STEEN
"Optimistic Explanatory Style", Handbook of Positive Psychology
Bad men excuse their faults; good men will leave them.
BEN JONSON
Catiline
An excuse has been defined as the skin of reason stuffed with a lie.
MICHAEL GREEN
Illustrations for Biblical Preaching
The longer the excuse the less likely it's the truth.
ROBERT HALF
attributed, The Peace Officer's Companion
Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Some of life's biggest heartaches come from missed opportunities and lame excuses. Don't miss out on what could be the best chapter in your life because you're too busy rereading the last one.
KANDI STEINER
Song Chaser
A private excuse will not atone for a public insult.
HAMID
attributed, Day's Collacon
He who excuses himself accuses himself.
FRENCH PROVERB
At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.
STEVE MARABOLI
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
The best excuse is to have none.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
JOHN WOODEN
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
The archer that shoots ill has a lie ready.
SPANISH PROVERB
Excuses are like exit signs on the road of progress. They take us off track ... it's easier to move from failure to success than from excuses to success.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Talent is Never Enough Workbook
Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above!
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Point Counter Point
The man who wants to do it finds a way; the man who doesn't finds an excuse.
EVAN ESAR
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