The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.

You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream.

A leader who accepts his own excuses cannot help others overcome theirs.

A good man never makes excuses, a smart man is never in a position to need one.

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true – you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both!

No one will ever blame you for trying to get it right.

Excuses fall silent behind self-control, focus, and direction.

I don’t make excuses, so don’t make excuses for me. When I’m being an ass, it’s because I have one.

We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline?

Always find a way to live happily instead of making excuses and pointing fingers. You truly deserve to be happy, and you could surely attain it if you vow to never turn your mind into a shelter for negative thoughts and beliefs.

Where procrastination and excuses reign, success is highly missed than delayed. Opportunity they say comes but once. You must therefore be prepared to tap every good opportunity that appears on your way

Idle hands are the devils greatest tools. But it’ll be good to notice that the tools sharpened by idle heads. You are idle because that’s the job your mind gave you!

Some people will make nonsense excuses to avoid things they have no interest in doing.

Decide to dream big dreams and make them happen. Never let procrastination and excuses squeeze your dreams to become small. Do it early and do it big!

The weak makes excuses, the strong makes changes.

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

I’ve got to stop this. Stop worrying about the why. Stop forcing what was happening into the realm of impossible. Stop hiding behind excuses. Stop being afraid to step out on faith.

Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying – at least among adults – is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying.

What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.

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,...

God’ is an excuse to justify hate.

Your will has to be stronger than your excuses. Your will has to be stronger than your fear.

There is always time to die, but never time to live.

Blame is a choice that doesn’t give you directions out of hell.

Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above!

Don’t always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN…

It’s not the time to look for excuses.

You won’t find your dream until you lose your excuses.

A person either buys his dream by surrendering his excuses or he buys his excuses by surrendering his dream.

Work hard and never make excuses.

To buy excuses, a person must sell his dream.

But all you see is the crap. So you don’t have to believe in anything. So you’ll have an excuse to fail.

He turned to her – his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and perfect penitence. Against which Scylla had to brace herself. Against such bravura how dull truth seemed, and difficult to access. Never had the bottom of a well seemed less attractive. She must hear...

To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it.

Push today for what you want tomorrow!

When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the driver’s seat. Why wait for someone else to figure it out or do it? Expect that you are the one. Expect great outcomes. Expect that you are the best candidate and that you will achieve your goals.

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.

When asked about sex, she said she had a headache. I said I have a pill for that. It’s called a Viagra, & I’d be willing to take it for her.

Procrastination and excuses really have the energy to make your picture small and blurred if you offer them that image!

You can dance in the storm. Don’t wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment.

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

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.

The first attempt may fail, but it does not create room for excuses.

Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day’s success.

Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now!

No one ever excused his way to success.