Excuses Quotes

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

~ Criss Jami

Vulnerability brings honesty. We become most honest with ourselves when we are faced with real fear around a situation or an outcome. Yet many still stay in their comfort zone, listening to their own excuses and lies.

~ Tony Curl

I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior we would just say, I was an asshole. Sure, there were reasons behind it, but that doesn't matter.

~ Colin Quinn

Honesty whispers, Don't get pricked by the thorns of lie.

~ Angelica Hopes

No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Please don't fool yourself cause you can't fool me. I know what exactly you think right now and i also know what excuses you will bring to cover your nasty lies, but never forget that i will never ever believe you.

~ Arash Tabish

Don't ever accuse anyone of being full of pride, undignified and unprofessional when simply they are wise to move away from dishonest schemers.Dishonesty comprise too of layers of lies simply casted for impressive appearances. There are times too that corrupt hearts have their own confused, modified, self-affirming, pro-self interest business inclined definitions of professionalism, integrity, dignity and pride.

~ Angelica Hopes

Lie to yourself if you want, but you’re not fooling me. Your excuses tell me that you didn’t really want it.

~ Steve Maraboli

I have been thinking about the idea of excuses for some time now. They are like menacing demons that creep into our lives without us knowing. They are roadblocks, white lies to ourselves, a reason to set the bar lower, and self-justification for achieving less than our full potential.

~ Lorii Myers

For how long are you going to continue making excuses? When have you ever solved anything through excuses?

~ Hafiz

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.

~ Allie Burke

One of the main reasons and excuses behind every religious failure is a” FALSE PROMISE”.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies.

~ Auliq Ice

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.

~ Richard Rohr

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.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ John C. Maxwell

He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and perfect penitence. Against which Scylla had to brace herself. Against such bravura how dull truth seemed, and difficult to access. Never had the bottom of a well seemed less attractive. She must hear him first. She could go down later.

~ Mary Butts

The choice [is} a familiar one, stop making excuses and shift [your] perspective.

~ Andrea Goeglein

Find excuses to live. Find excuses to be happy. The world provides enormous opportunities to the courageous.

~ Girdhar Joshi

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?

~ Vera Nazarian

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.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Excuses fall silent behind self-control, focus, and direction.

~ Lorii Myers

Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself.

~ Steven Brown

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.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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 something great with each day in the year!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do something, when all they need is one reason why they can.

~ Willis R. Whitney

Make no excuses for the devils that will not excuse you of their burdens, Miss Crane. - Darien Nicodemeus; Chapter Sixteen - The Giant's Return

~ S.c. Parris

Never ever continue to complain of lack of time all the time for no one is in possession of all the time.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The latent abundance of your inner most resources matters less. What matter most is the impact you can make with your inner resources and the distinctive footprints you can leave with what is within you. The excuse not to dare is there for everybody. When you see so many people crowded at the entrance, think of the roofing and if the roofing is too high, think of the next door and if the next door is not penetrable, create a door within the wall.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The latent abundance of your inner most resources matter less. What matters most is the impact you can make with your inner resources and the distinctive footprints you can leave with what is within you. The excuse not to dare is there for everybody. When you see so many people crowded at the entrance, think of the roofing and if the roofing is too high, think of the next door and if the next door is not penetrable, create a door within the wall.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There is always time to die, but never time to live.

~ Anthony Liccione

My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.

~ Charles Dickens

You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream.

~ Orrin Woodward

If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Put some action on your good intentions!

~ Lorii Myers

When aspirations are perceived to be achievable, ambition and drive can erase excuses.

~ Lorii Myers

Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved.

~ Asa Don Brown