quotations about excuses
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
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
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
The evildoer never lacks excuses.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.
ERIC HOFFER
Reflections on the Human Condition
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
The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.
YIDDISH PROVERB
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
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
Any excuse will serve when one has not a mind to do a thing.
GUICCIARDINI
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Never give an excuse that you would not be willing to accept.
E. C. MCKENZIE
14,000 Quips and Quotes
An excuse is a lie stuffed into the skin of a reason.
MILTON JONES
Leadership Paradigms
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 attribute my success to this--I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
attributed, Quote Junkie
If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
THOMAS SZASZ
The Second Sin
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've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
ERROL MORRIS
New York Observer, Sep. 29, 2003