Excuses Quotes

“There was no going back. Apologies weren't welds; they were just an admission that something had been broken. Often between two people.”
― Hugh Howey, Dust

“Everything is easier said than done. Don't give yourself that excuse.”
― Sue Fitzmaurice

“Excuses will always be made, and blame will always fall on the other. Though the truth is before you, your own love will forever blind you from it. I will not lose you just to prove a point, nor to shatter your heart with the reality before you. Instead I will smile. I will live. I will accept that it just is. I do not do this for them, but I will do it for you. I will do it because I love you." - from an untitled script”
― Faye Hall

“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

“You won't find your dream until you lose your excuses.”
― Orrin Woodward

“Don’t be lazy. Hard work brings happiness. There is no other time to avoid being a lazy. Take that decision now. Kick laziness out.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“Yet early on in the marriage I found myself -- despite all my self-promises -- drifting into the role of wife: focusing on the renovations of the apartment, doing silly little domestic things instead of writing, using the wife role as cop-out from my work, my work which had always involved me in so much controversy and which some part of me longed to retreat from.... Even when I was forty-seven, full of my own power, my own identity, something in me wanted to escape from the fray and dwindle into a wife. It seemed to comfy, so safe.”
― Erica Jong, Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir

“Your will has to be stronger than your excuses. Your will has to be stronger than your fear.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“You see, during my pilgrimage it became increasingly apparent that I wasn't happy and I had to do something about it - stop making excuses. I realized that you don't have to jump through a series of complicated hoops to achieve a goal. You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God; you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.”
― Paulo Coelho

“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

“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

“We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline?”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“A leader who accepts his own excuses cannot help others overcome theirs.”
― Orrin Woodward

“We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.”
― Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest

“Now that you’re old, cut yourself some slack, would you?

Let yourself off the hook.

Give yourself a break.

You don’t have to do it all anymore. Take it easy for a change.

It’s OK with the rest of the world. So why not you?

For the first time in your life, do what you want.

Not what everyone else thinks you should.

Not what you think everyone else thinks you should.

Do what you want.

Excuse yourself. Say no. Back out. Beg off. Stay home. Take a rain check. Take a nap. Watch the ball game on TV.

Anything but what you’d rather not do but feel you have to for everyone else's sake but your own. And then feel bad about having done it. That's plain wrong.

And ask for some help when you need it: 'It’s too heavy.' 'It's too far.' Too near. Too cold. Too hot. Too bright. Too dark.

Whatever.

It's OK because there's always going to be something you need help with anymore.

And be grateful for the helping hand. You'll find more and more people extend one to you these days. Whatever the reason for accepting you’ve got the best excuse in the world. The only one you’ll ever need:

'Hey, I’m old.”
― Lionel Fisher, Celebrating Time Alone: Stories Of Splendid Solitude

“The first attempt may fail, but it does not create room for excuses.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“It's said that people who give excuses for the reason not do something always formulate those excuses, waiting for the reason to surface to justify their excuses!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“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

“We assent to wifedom because we are so used to having someone to blame and so unused to freedom. We prefer self-punishment to the conquest of our fears. We prefer our anger to our freedom.
If women were totally conscious of the part of themselves that gives away power to men, the prediction of victory might prove true. But we are far from this self-knowledge. And we move further and further away as we retreat from the psychoanalytic model of the self. As long as we disclaim the importance of unconscious motivations, of the existence of the unconscious itself, we cannot root out the slave in ourselves. Freedom is hand to love. Freedom takes away all the excuses.”
― Erica Jong, Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir

“People are attracted to those who fully live life without excuses.”
― PeggySue Wells, Rediscovering Your Happily Ever After: Moving from Hopeless to Hopeful as a Newly Divorced Mother

“Keep your handkerchief neat, and then you can be trusted with a bigger clothe. If you can’t manage few minutes, you are likely to waste 24 hours no matter how many times it’s given to you!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“If you really want succeed in what you do, obey this rule;... Wake up very early, go to bed lately... Occupy your time usefully!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine”
― Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

“Our politicians always show lame excuse to defend their cripple decisions.”
― Munia Khan

“Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Tüm şımarık kızların aklına başına sonradan gelir ve muhtemel kabul görmenizi sağlayan bahaneleri de vardır.”
― Aligül Yıldız

“You don't need to think deeply before reaching out to the excuses to give. Just lose interest in it and you gain excuses at no cost!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Compromised commitments today lead to creative excuses tomorrow.”
― Orrin Woodward

“Take excuses and procrastination as your enemies. Let them see you and frown their faces and bypass you without greetings. You will excel if you don’t internalize the habit of giving excuses.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“She's not ashamed of loving, although those she's loved are few in number; it was/is sweet and true. She's only ashamed she used love as an excuse.”
― Donna Lynn Hope