Quotes on Excuse

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be.' Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.

My parents never let the color of our skin be an excuse for why we did not succeed.

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

The more you stop giving power to your excuses, the more you'll send power to your dreams.

We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.

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

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck

It is impossible to need excuses when the focus of your life shifts from 'What's in it for me?' to 'How can I serve?'

A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met...I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.

The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of generations, however, men will excuse you for not doing as they do, if you will bring enough to pass in your own way.

Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.