EXCUSES QUOTES II

quotations about excuses

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


He is a bad shot who cannot find an excuse.

GERMAN PROVERB


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


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


Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

ERIC HOFFER

Reflections on the Human Condition


The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.

YIDDISH PROVERB


The evildoer never lacks excuses.

ITALIAN PROVERB


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


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 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


Any excuse will serve when one has not a mind to do a thing.

GUICCIARDINI

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


An excuse is a lie stuffed into the skin of a reason.

MILTON JONES

Leadership Paradigms


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


I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.

ERROL MORRIS

New York Observer, Sep. 29, 2003


There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

GEORGE SAVILE

Moral Thoughts and Reflections


I attribute my success to this--I never gave or took any excuse.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

attributed, Quote Junkie


Never give an excuse that you would not be willing to accept.

E. C. MCKENZIE

14,000 Quips and Quotes