Excuses Quotes

“When you say a right or wrong behavior is on a spectrum, you are simply trying to make excuses for bad behavior.”
― Jeffrey Fry, Distilled Thoughts

“Making excuses only leads to continued stagnation.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Before the ink could dry on her words of excuse, they were smudged with guilt.”
― Ruth Hogan, The Keeper of Lost Things

“Your so-called morals are nothing but an excuse to act better than the rest of us. To treat us as though we are not as clever or as righteous as you, when really, all you're doing is trying to hide your own insecurities! It's childish and contemptible and I've put up with it long enough.'

- Catherine”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Lots of “I” and “me” in this chapter. Mother-Judah has a very egocentric manner of speech. Maybe Judah hopes she can out-talk God. Maybe Judah hopes she can convince God that, all things considered, she ain’t as bad as the other nations. (De 18:9-14)
Narcissist partners rarely miss an opportunity to point fingers—and that’s how Judah decides to end chapter one.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Lamentations: how narcissistic leaders torment church and family

“Laziness looks at excuses as something to treasure while diligence always focuses on excuses as an inconvenience to be overcome”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Bad excuses are worse than none.”
― Thomas Fuller

“When you have every excuse to not do it,
Your choice of 'none' becomes the most important.”
― Mahendar Singh Jakhar

“No excuse is a good excuse.”
― SERENA DEENA

“It is in the utter exhaustion born of my battle with fear and trauma that all pretense and pretending is methodically stripped away. And although that process seems callously brutal, its intent is to leave me facing the rank ugliness of my weakness without the debilitating filter of denial or other such maladies. And it is in this place of excruciating rawness that I now have sufficient pain and ample frustration to compel me to change that which I’ve spent a lifetime cultivating.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Making excuses for yourself only leads to continued stagnation.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Oh, that's just what I need. To wait on all of my friends at Macy's."
"So what? You guys need the money, right?"
"There are jobs, and then there are jobs."
"You're talking to a girl who is working at a farm stand so that she can chase her dream job."
"That's different."
"Oh, yeah? How? Last I checked, Libby wanted you to spend two thousand bucks on chairs. Where's that money coming from?"
She sighs. "You and your father are all burned up about those chairs. Poor Libby."
"Poor Libby?" Classic. My mom always takes Libby's side. When Libby got a bad grade on an exam or paper, my mom would claim the teacher was incompetent, even when I'd had the same teachers and had aced their classes. When Libby's field hockey tournament was the same weekend as my clarinet recital, my mom chose Libby's tournament because, she said, Libby needed her support more than I did. And when Libby and her girlfriends ate the chocolate mousse I made as part of a project for French class senior year, my mom said it was my fault for leaving it in our refrigerator without a note. How was Libby to know?
"Mom, Libby lives in fantasyland. And anyway, if you cared so much about getting her damn chairs, you'd take a job at the gas station if you needed to." I catch myself. "I take that back. If Libby cares so much about the damn chairs, she should get a job at the gas station."
She clicks her tongue. "Sydney."
"What? Maybe it's time for Libby to grow up and realize she needs to take responsibility for things.”
― Dana Bate, A Second Bite at the Apple

“Our mindset determines our reality. When we believe in abundance, we attract more of it into our lives. Excuses are the chains that bind us to scarcity.”
― Farshad Asl

“There is no perfect time to do anything. No matter what point in your life you've reached, we can always find a reason not to do something.”
― Andrew Pacholyk, Barefoot ~ A Surfer's View of the Universe

“Provide an excuse to a poor mind and you will be deemed as noble amongst mankind”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“We are somehow led to believe that the justification of what we’re ‘sowing’ has the power to change the nature of what we’re sowing. Subsequently, we find ourselves shocked that the justifications didn’t change the nature of what we ‘reaped.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What do you want to set? Excuses or examples?”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Rep By Rep

“Not the excuses but exercises build the body.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Rep By Rep

“And he said...

...know that 'sorry' is the most intentional of words.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Excuses are the cheapest commodity in our verbal market. It enhances failure and represses the capacity to be successful. It is the comfort abode for one who gives up on trying.”
― Dr Ikoghene S Aashikpelokhai

“Emotion is usually the reason, logic is often the excuse.”
― Aegelis, Sophizo

“Fiction as a means of avoiding fact is the fiction of fiction.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I'm a muckin' gem in the refuse even when the world's ending - what the F is your excuse?”
― Aesop Rock

“Well, maybe you can keep it. But you definitely have to put in a catalytic converter.”

“It’s on my list,” I assure her. “Right after a new floor for the back seat, just in case I ever have passengers.”

Parker peers into the back. “Whoa, is that the ground?”

“Air-conditioning,” I supply, tight-lipped. “Old-school.”
― Gordon Korman, The Unteachables

“I was so open-minded, my brain slipped out.”
― Allison Bottke, Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

“If we choose to fabricate a fictional narrative in order to excuse the choices that we make, we are placing others in a position where they must protect themselves from our narrative. And in doing that, we have created the enemy that was not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In the time that it takes to rationalize why I should avoid doing something I could have done it three times over.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When everything you have experienced, everything you know, every circumstance, every place, every person around you, has ALWAYS been wrong... Then the one who is wrong is you!”
― Jasmina Alexander

“When lovers say of some act that we might blame, "Love made us do it," notice the tone. A man saying, "I did it because I was frightened," or "I did it because I was angry," speaks quite differently. He is putting forward an excuse for what he feels to require excusing. But the lovers are seldom doing quite that. Notice how tremulously, almost how devoutly, they say the word love, not so much pleading an "extenuating circumstance" as appealing to an authority. The confession can be almost a Boast. There can be a shade of defiance in it. They "feel like martyrs". In extreme cases what their words really express is a demure yet unshakable allegiance to the god of love.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“It was my fault," said Rosie. "I added a bit too much science.”
― Geri Halliwell-Horner, Rosie Frost and the Falcon Queen