EXCUSES QUOTES III

quotations about excuses

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

STEVE MARABOLI

Life, the Truth, and Being Free


For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, "Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit I have never had a great love or a great friendship; but that is because I never met a man or a woman who were worthy of it; if I have not written any very good books, it is because I had not the leisure to do so; or, if I have had no children to whom I could devote myself it is because I did not find the man I could have lived with. So there remains within me a wide range of abilities, inclinations and potentialities, unused but perfectly viable, which endow me with a worthiness that could never be inferred from the mere history of my actions." But in reality and for the existentialist, there is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving; there is no genius other than that which is expressed in works of art.

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Existentialism Is a Humanism


A private excuse will not atone for a public insult.

HAMID

attributed, Day's Collacon


No one ever excused his way to success.

DAVE DEL DOTTO

attributed, Quotable Quotes


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


The manly man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never for himself.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


He who excuses himself accuses himself.

FRENCH PROVERB


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


The longer the excuse the less likely it's the truth.

ROBERT HALF

attributed, The Peace Officer's Companion


The dog ate my notebook with all my good excuses.

MINDEE ARNETT

The Nightmare Affair


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


Bad men excuse their faults; good men will leave them.

BEN JONSON

Catiline


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 are merely nails used to build a house of failure.

AMERICAN PROVERB


An excuse has been defined as the skin of reason stuffed with a lie.

MICHAEL GREEN

Illustrations for Biblical Preaching


The best excuse is to have none.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


The archer that shoots ill has a lie ready.

SPANISH PROVERB


The man who wants to do it finds a way; the man who doesn't finds an excuse.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


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