quotations about excuses
He is a bad shot who cannot find an excuse.
GERMAN PROVERB
The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
The Waste Books
Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
JOHN BRUNNER
Children of the Thunder
Excuses never excuse. They just repeat the crime that required the excuse in the first place.
PAUL DE MAN
Political Archive of Paul de Man
The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.
YIDDISH PROVERB
The evildoer never lacks excuses.
ITALIAN PROVERB
When you lost all hope and excuses
And the cheapskates and the losers
Nothing's left to cling onto
You got to hold on to yourself
GREEN DAY
"Hold On", Warning
I have been thinking about the idea of excuses for some time now. They are like menacing demons that creep into our lives without us knowing. They are roadblocks, white lies to ourselves, a reason to set the bar lower, and self-justification for achieving less than our full potential.
LORII MYERS
No Excuses
Any excuse will serve when one has not a mind to do a thing.
GUICCIARDINI
attributed, Day's Collacon
If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.
ERIC HOFFER
Reflections on the Human Condition
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
THOMAS SZASZ
The Second Sin
Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it!
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You
For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plague, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Purity of Heart
The sincere intention of doing a good action, and a good excuse for not doing it, are equivalent to its performance.
YAHYA KHALID
attributed, Day's Collacon
I attribute my success to this--I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
attributed, Quote Junkie
An excuse is a lie stuffed into the skin of a reason.
MILTON JONES
Leadership Paradigms
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
JOHN WOODEN
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
The manly man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never for himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
ERROL MORRIS
New York Observer, Sep. 29, 2003