Quotes on Making Excuses

First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.

Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility. From here, the reality of vagabonding comes into sharper focus as you adjust your worldview and begin to embrace the exhilarating uncertainty that true travel promises.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

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

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

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

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

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire’s budget deficits. It has no moral significance.