Excuses Quotes

“Successful people do not have fewer problems, they have fewer excuses.”
― Jeffrey Fry, Distilled Thoughts

“Successful people are so busy getting things done that they don’t have time to make excuses.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“(...) all my carefully crafted excuses for you dissolved like sugar under absinthe, revealing a truth I had spent centuries avoiding.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“Align your questions with the success you want after the goal is achieved and watch a host of nonsensical excuses disappear as the answers emerge.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Excuses proclaim an unwillingness to learn.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“This, after all, is the king who passed the law about putting trousers on cats and dogs, who made too-loud laughter a punishable crime. According to rumor, he was abused by his father, the last king. But that's the story people always tell, isn't it, when they want to explain inexplicable behavior?”
― Michael Cunningham, A Wild Swan: And Other Tales

“Staggering amount of will power is built by breaking tiniest of excuses day by day.”
― Hiral Nagda

“The greatest tragedy in life is when people lack mastery of their craft and turn on excuses, pointing fingers and blaming others for their shortcomings.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Hello Mrs Cannon,' said Melanie. 'Friday wants me to distract you so that she can get Parker to say something that isn't on his official scripts.'
'Really?' said Mrs Cannon. 'That sounds intriguing. Much more intriguing than this unspeakably boring polo match. Why don't you pretend to sprain your ankle, then I could pretend to be concerned?'
'Okay,' said Melanie. 'Does that mean I can lie down?'
'I wouldn't dream of trying to stop you,' said Mrs Cannon. 'I just wish I could do the same.'
'You could say you had a fainting spell,' suggested Melanie.
'What a good idea,' said Mrs Cannon. 'If you've got a sprained ankle and I have a fainting spell, then we can both have a nice rest on the grass.'
'The Headmaster can't complain about that,' said Melanie as they both made themselves comfortable.
'Of course not,' said Mrs Cannon. 'If he did I'd report him to my union.”
― R.A. Spratt, Big Trouble

“Sometimes the cause itself is nothing more than the excuse to be the enemy.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Funny, it being homework you’d think home would be where it’s supposed to be but no, I need it at school, but you can’t call it schoolwork because that’s just stuff you do at school but it really is schoolwork you do at home and then bring it back so you could call it school-home-school work but either way it’s not here and I need to get it from home and get it to school so home is where I need to go now.”
― A and E Kirk

“It’s annoying to be given a lame excuse, especially when you’re not owed an explanation.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“As long you have a reason to do something wrong or bad. You will forever do it.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“How often is insanity the excuse for sanity run amuck?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“And you wouldn’t believe the amount of times someone claims to have accidentally stabbed themselves either! Just last week, I had a Sphinx claiming she’d fallen on a pointy carrot at dinner while I removed the sharpened end of a toothbrush from her gut,”
― Caroline Peckham

“Why the fuck are you naked?" he demanded.

"It's how I express my inner crea-tiv-it-ai," he said innocently. "I need to be free of clothes when I paint, it is my way, sir.”
― Caroline Peckham, Alpha Wolf

“What were you doing? This lot said you were over there," he growled, pointing to the section of the library he'd just searched.

Rosa batted her lashes. "I went to see how Plunger was getting on. He's slowing down our work by trying to use his dick as a paintbrush."

Plunger shrugged like that wasn't unusual behaviour. "It is the way of my crea-tiv-it-ai."

“It’s creativit- tee ,”
― Caroline Peckham, Alpha Wolf

“The past keeps tomorrow hidden in the future excuses of man.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“We are all talented at coming up with plausible excuses.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Those who constantly make excuses and rationalize, shall be known as; The Excuse.”
― RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 1980

“To keep an ostrich from putting its head in the sand, it would make sense to get rid of the sand. Yet in our culture today, so many of us seem to be in the import business.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The point is that we make so many complicated excuses for not doing things. Whatever happened to a little simple ingenuity?”
― Jim Brickman, Simple Things Sheet Music

“Watch out. Excuses can be habit forming.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“Once you stop giving excuses, you start giving results.”
― Hiral Nagda

“But excuses didn't mean anything in the end. What _actually happened_ in the end was what mattered.”
― Mark Watson, Contacts

“But excuses didn't mean anything in the end. What actually happened in the end was what mattered.”
― Mark Watson, Contacts

“In between you and greatness is a couple of deeply rooted excuses.”
― rgspmd

“Living in an age in which all types of information is accessible to everyone, blind faith is no longer a valid excuse.”
― Priscilla Vogelbacher, Hallowed Be Thy Name

“You put a curse on that girl over there,' I tell him. 'Fix her immediately.'

'She admired my ears,' the boy says. 'I was only giving her what she desired. A party favour.'

'That's what I'm going to say after I gut you and use your entrails as streamers,' I tell him. 'I was only giving him what he wanted. After all, if he didn't want to be eviscerated, he would have honoured my very reasonable request.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“If, is a word full of excuses”
― Anthony T. Hincks