Excuses Quotes

“Because my demon told me to” isn’t a generally accepted reason,”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

“Stop standing in your own way. Stop making excuses. Stop talking about why you can't. Stop sabotaging yourself. Decide which direction you are going in and take action. One decision at a time, one moment at a time.”
― Akiroq Brost

“You can have excuses or you can have success; you can't have both.”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth

“Eden fruitarianism is about exposing denial, it's about recognising the invalidity of feeble excuses, it's about unveiling meaningless pretexts, and it's about taking responsibility for all of our actions, facing the consequences of them with honesty and integrity, and finally, and of most significance, it's about making whatever changes are necessary in recognition of our shortcomings.”
― Mango Wodzak, Destination Eden - Eden Fruitarianism Explained

“Mental illness is an illness , not an excuse for irresponsibility .”
― Talitha Day Fair, Lily, Be Free

“You are either making disciples or making excuses. Which one are you?”
― Jonathan Hayashi

“So let me get this straight, you are telling me it's a harsh world, and using this as an excuse to add more to that harshness?”
― Mango Wodzak, The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook

“Unemployed people will use any number of excuses including discrimination for reasons such as disability, race, sexual orientation, religion, sex or age, or maybe there’s a shortage of jobs in their area. Well if that’s the case then they can travel to wherever the work is and go into digs. I work in construction management and regularly work with steel erectors from Ireland or Newcastle, electricians from Cardiff, fixers from Sheffield or Birmingham, steel fixers from Romania, carpenters from Poland, canteen girls from Romania, scaffolders from Lithuania, and concrete gangs of Indians, and they all travel wherever the work is and they all live in digs. We all do. It’s the nature of our industry.”
― Karl Wiggins, 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“We sometimes hide our inability, impatience, or laziness behind the pretext of being realistic.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You could always make an excuse not to make a change.”
― Siobhan Curham, Tell it to the Moon

“Once an excuse has been deployed, brutal honesty is no longer an option.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“Excuse your Excuses”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“If you tell me before, it's a reason. If you tell me after, it's an excuse.”
― Carlos Wallace

“I don't have enough time. I am being pulled in too many directions. Someone or something is stealing my time. Whether you complain that you are overworked and overextended or you believe that other people, obligations, or competing loyalties are forcing you to postpone or cancel your own aspirations or dreams, you're basically saying one thing: you are inefficient. Yes, it's your fault. It's bullshit and you can change that.”
― Jon Taffer, Don't Bullsh*t Yourself!: Crush the Excuses That Are Holding You Back

“If you want to change something about yourself, you need to be willing to take full responsibility for yourself. If you are going to hide behind stories and excuses, it won't work!”
― Akiroq Brost

“Aiden is such a beautiful dream, I'd rather invent a million excuses for his absence that accept he never felt the same about me - Amber”
― Lucy Alice, Ice Burns

“Excuses create pain because you are not using your mind to think how you can fulfill your will, but rather to make real the reasons why your love should be ignored and Truth rejected.”
― Dragos Bratasanu, The Pursuit of Dreams: Claim Your Power, Follow Your Heart, and Fulfill Your Destiny

“It is not that the dumb cannot be taught, It is that the teachers failed to teach”
― Cole Edward Willis

“Excuses are a powerful thing. One excuse can negate 100 opportunities.”
― Bobby Darnell, Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville

“If you look for an excuse, you'll always find one.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Stop with making:

1) Stupid excuses
2) Up Stupid reasons”
― Deyth Banger

“My visit didn't take long. Saying thanks never does. It's the excuses that eat up time.”
― James Anderson, Lullaby Road

“Don’t wait for perfect conditions because life has no perfect conditions. The secret to success lies in your ability to do more with less.”
― Moffat Machingura, Life Capsules for Success: 50 Energy Capsules to Speed Boost You Towards Your Success, Now!

“The only thing standing between us and our goals are the excuses we fall back on that keep us in chains, little do we know that we hold the key in our grasp.”
― Mark W Boyer

“If you fear change you’ll likely create a story that justifies inaction.”
― Freequill

“Talking isn't all about excuses... it's more about action.”
― Deyth Banger, How to Talk to Anyone

“Someone once said that ‘the end justifies the means’. And as I think about that, I’m not certain that any kind of ‘means’ that are justified will take me to any kind of ‘end’ that I want to be at in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In order for anything to happen you will have to act. Knowing is not enough. Neither is just being. Talking becomes annoying beyond a certain point. Doing makes all the difference. Doing converts thoughts into things. Doing turns talk into solutions and tangible results.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“Work-life balance” seems to have become the best excuse for many people not to take responsibility for their professional and personal growth. But this “balance” that all of us love to talk about is not something conceptual. It is achieved by strategic, focused, hard work. It doesn’t come by default or when we say the magic words. That’s why many of us are leading lives far from our potential for success and fulfillment — because we wait for balance to happen, and it never does. I’ve been there, and it sucks.

Most of us haven’t taken a single hour of our lives to think about what work-life balance means to us. Needless to say, we put zero effort into planning about it, working for it, living it. Open your calendar and show me what your work-life balance looks like. In 99 percent of cases, it’s not there — it’s nowhere to be found.”
― Simeon Ivanov, 0.1%: Join The Club of The Richest, Healthiest, Happiest

“Often times, celebrated disability is a excuse to cover up real abilities.”
― Paul Bamikole