Excuses Quotes

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Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time. She has more excuses than dogs have hairs. She must just simply dive in and stand not knowing what will happen next.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

Jeffrey Fry
“Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.”
Jeffrey Fry

Jeffrey Fry
“It is easier to make excuses about our circumstances than actually do anything about them.”
Jeffrey Fry

Alexander Hamilton
“I inquired for Mrs. Reynolds and was shewn up stairs, at the head of which she met me and conducted me into a bed room. I took the bill out of my pocket and gave it to her. Some conversation ensued from which it was quickly apparent that other than pecuniary consolation would be acceptable.”
Alexander Hamilton, The Reynolds Pamphlet

Farshad Asl
“Believing and investing in yourself is the best way to shift your thinking from a paradigm of excuses to one of solutions.”
Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity

Holly Lisle
“If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time to pursue them is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.”
Holly Lisle

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“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

Taylor Jenkins Reid
“If you love someone, if you think you could make them happy for the rest of your life together, then nothing should stop you. You should be prepared to take them as they are and deal with the consequences. Relationships aren't neat and clean - they're ugly and messy, and they make almost no sense except to the two people in them. If you truly love someone, you accept the circumstances, you don't hide behind them”
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

Scott Stabile
“There's often a deeper truth to be found beneath the excuses we make for ourselves and our lives. Once I stopped looking for tired excuses, I started to find some honest answers.”
Scott Stabile

Stephanie Lahart
“A life filled with excuses is defeated, unproductive, and miserable.”
Stephanie Lahart

Israelmore Ayivor
“Change makers take risks and are ready to die for excellence than to give excuses and live for mediocrity.”
Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

Dante Alighieri
“As one who wills, and then unwills his will,
Changing his mind with every changing whim,
Till all his best intentions come to nil,

So I stood havering in that moorland dim,
While through fond rifts of fancy oozed away
The first quick zest that filled me to the brim.”
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

“we were not born the same and we are all not born with the same abilities and capabilities, but no matter what seed God has given to us, be it small or big, He expects a good returns from us in the end and we must endeavor to be good stewards and managers of our abilities and capabilities regardless of where we live and the challenges we face!”
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life: the reasons behind action

Farshad Asl
“An uninspired mind creates a lack of energy for the body, resulting in a lack of performance filled with excuses.”
Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity

Catherynne M. Valente
“I am certainly intrepid and splendid and sordid and strong; I can see why you'd want me! But I'm afraid I've left the kettle on or whatever it is people say when they're bored.”
Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“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

Peter Lopez Jr.
“What we need to understand is that once we rely on using excuses as a way out, they take a life of their own.”
Peter Lopez Jr., Excuses Excuses Which One Is Yours?

“You can either go home with enough money or enough excuses, but not both!”
Harshvardhan Malpani

Rob Liano
“If you haven't arrived yet, keep driving, your destiny is waiting for you.”
Rob Liano

Girdhar Joshi
“Find excuses to live. Find excuses to be happy. The world provides enormous opportunities to the courageous.”
Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon

Farshad Asl
“We create excuses that stand between us and other people; excuses that separate us from the happiness and the prospects these people can present.”
Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity

Farshad Asl
“A life hidden behind the veil of excuses leaves behind a blank page, but a life with the brilliant light of purpose shone upon it fills every page with wisdom.”
Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity

Frank Sonnenberg
“You’ll never learn anything or impress anyone by making excuses and diverting blame.”
Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others

“An excuse will not wake up early”
Johnnie Dent Jr.

Roy Peter Clark
“If you want to write, here's a secret: the writer's struggle is overrated, a con game, a cognitive distortion, a self-fulfilling prophecy, the best excuse for not writing. "Why should I get writer's block?" asked the mischievous Roger Simon. "My father never got truck driver's block.”
Roy Peter Clark, Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

Eraldo Banovac
“People usually consider an active and proactive approach as a human virtue. However, sometimes doing nothing is the best choice we can make. If an already difficult situation becomes worse as a consequence of our doing, there is absolutely no excuse for us, regardless of the fact that we acted with the best intentions.”
Eraldo Banovac

Dragos Bratasanu
“Your mind can find all the excuses why your dreams are not possible but you will not be able to fight with your mind the stronger pull of your heart.(from The Amazing You movie)”
Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.