Quotes about Excuses

Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

God does not forgive excuses; He only forgives sins.

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

We have no idea any more what it means to feel guilty. The communists have the excuse that Stalin misled them, murdurers have the excuse that their mothers didn't love them. And suddenly you come out and say: there is no excuse. No one could be more innocent in his soul and conscience than Oedipus, and yet he punished himself when he saw what he had done.

What is it, Lord?" What am I holding back? What am I using as an excuse for not serving You in whatever You want me to do?" And then, there by the canal, I finally had my answer. My "yes" to God had always been a "yes, but." Yes, but I'm not educated. Yes, but I'm lame. With the next breath, I did say "Yes." I said it in a brand-new way, without qualification. "I'll go, Lord

God my Creator said, 'Go and make disciples.' So I don't want to sit and make excuses.

When you go in there and fight, you pretty much relinquish and give up the right to make any excuses about something.