Excuses Quotes

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 first attempt may fail, but it does not create room for excuses.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

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

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

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.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A person either buys his dream by surrendering his excuses or he buys his excuses by surrendering his dream.

~ Orrin Woodward

You won't find your dream until you lose your excuses.

~ Orrin Woodward

Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN...

~ Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

Always find a way to live happily instead of making excuses and pointing fingers. You truly deserve to be happy, and you could surely attain it if you vow to never turn your mind into a shelter for negative thoughts and beliefs.

~ Hafiz

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.

~ Criss Jami

People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase is practically inevitable.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance.

~ Bryant Mcgill

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 T. Goeglein

You can make excuses or you can achieve your goals, but you can't do both.

~ Andrea Gogelein

Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Gandhi, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus Christ.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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.

~ Lorii Myers

No more excuses or procrastination! Stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals.

~ Steve Maraboli

Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action!

~ Steve Maraboli

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!

~ Steve Maraboli

When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.

~ Terry Pratchett

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

~ Pushpa Rana

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.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Becoming limitless involves mental agility, the ability to quickly grasp and incorporate new ideas and concepts with confidence.

~ Lorii Myers

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.

~ Antonella Gambotto-Burke

The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

~ Napoleon Hill

To buy excuses, a person must sell his dream.

~ Orrin Woodward

But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.

~ Lauren Oliver

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.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Habeeb Akande

She seems to always get itTo have become adept at empathyAlways giving excuses for people who’ve aggrieved herTo the point it’s hard for her to hit back when necessary All because she assumes she ‘understands’Then, one day . . .She finally stands up for herselfAt that moment, she revels in the natural instinct of self-preservationShe realises all this while the power she’s been withholdingIn a transcendent moment of epiphanyIt’s all beautiful ‘causeNow, she can get back to empathy with understanding, rather, than without.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

Don't use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!!!

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

It’s not the situation -the action that does matter, situations produce excuses, where the actions -the results.

~ Praveen Chenna

Until you are willing to learn the lessons, pay attention to details, and become patient with yourself, you will keep repeating the same patterns over and over again.

~ Kemi Sogunle

Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A good man never makes excuses, a smart man is never in a position to need one.

~ Kyle Barger

Believing and investing in yourself is the best way to shift your thinking from a paradigm of excuses to one of solutions.

~ Farshad Asl

To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it.

~ Joan Lowery Nixon

God' is an excuse to justify hate.

~ Anonymous