Quotes on Excuse

To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.