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Quotes about Excuses

Later is where excuses live. Later is where good intentions go to die. Later is a broken back and a bent spirit. Later says "all-nighters are temporary until we've got this figured out." Unlikely. Make the change now.
- Jason Fried
She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.
- Edith Wharton
I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
- Alain de Botton
We mustn't allow our circumstances and disappointments to become the excuse for the choices we make in life. God is greater than all of that, and He can bring beauty out of ashes. Our trials come, Augustine said, "to prove us and to improve us.
- Alistair Begg
Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.
- Zig Ziglar
Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
- John Maxwell
The walls of your comfort zone are lovingly decorated with your lifelong collection of favorite excuses.
- Jen Sincero
Our fantasies are our realities in an excuse-free world.
- Jen Sincero
I find that whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes. The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pathway to freedom begins when we face the problem without making excuses for it.
- Joyce Meyer
An excuse is a reason stuffed with a lie. The problem with excuses is that as long as we hold on to them, we will not see change.
- Joyce Meyer
excuses are nothing more than a way to deceive ourselves and justify doing nothing. You will come alive like never before if you will aggressively reach out to others. Let us not forget the words of Jesus: "I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another" (John 13:34). Without a doubt, this is our purpose and the will of God for our lives.
- Joyce Meyer