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

Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn’t mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true.

Don’t let reality, get in way of your dreams.

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

Why not? It’s natural selection. Just like nature.” I wrinkled my nose. “Boudas love this argument, because it gives them an excuse to do all the wrong things. ‘I’m sorry I screwed your sister and...

I didn’t do anything wrong. I swear.’He grunted. ‘Like I’ve never heard that before. Funny, but I expected a little more originality from Moira’s daughter.”Yeah, well, the dog ate my notebook with all my good...

Make no excuses for the devils that will not excuse you of their burdens, Miss Crane.” – Darien Nicodemeus; Chapter Sixteen – The Giant’s Return

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...

Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no...

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.

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

Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights.But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires...

But protest that priests are ‘no worse’ than other groups or than men in general is a dire indictment of the profession. It is surprising that this attitude is championed by the Church authorities. Although...

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.

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

The immature person makes excuses to avoid the responsibility of his own potential. -Wade D. Sadlier

Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

Positive results are always inevitable when you refuse to live a life of fears, doubts, excuses, blames and procrastinations.

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...

We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams.

Being a Christian is not an excuse to checkout from REALITY.

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!

Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit I have never had a great love or a great friendship; but that is because I...

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

victimnoun ˈvik-təm 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.

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

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

Put some action on your good intentions!

There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses.

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

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

Excuses are only for those who aren’t hungry enough for a positive change.

Uncomplicate it. Don’t make excuses. Some of life’s biggest heartaches come from missed opportunities and lame excuses. Don’t miss out on what could be the best chapter in your life because you’re too busy rereading...

No more excuses or procrastination! Stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals.

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.

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.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.

Lets not use obstacles as excuses for not achieving our dreams, use them as signs that the dream is worth it.

I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior we would just say, “I was an asshole. Sure, there were reasons behind...

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...

When aspirations are perceived to be achievable, ambition and drive can erase excuses.