Creating your own reality will allow you to be and perform at your own standard. These quotes about excuses will remind you to not allow anything to hold you back from achieving what you desire.
“A life that is defended by Excuses has become comfortable in defeat, it has settled for mediocrity and is destined for failure.”
“An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.”
“An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.”
“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.”
“And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.”
“Any excuse will do when you need an excuse because it really doesn’t matter. You won’t be of much use to those who require people that get it done no matter what.”
“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”
“Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.”
“Don’t do what you’ll have to find an excuse for.”
“Don’t look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.”
“Don’t make excuses and Don’t talk about it. Do it.”
“Don’t make excuses, make something incredible happen in your life right now.”
“Don’t make excuses. Make things happen. Make changes. Then make history.”
“Don’t use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!”
“Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure. ”
“Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.”
“Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.”
“Excuses are useless. Results are priceless.”
“Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better. ”
“Excuses, are nothing more, than a reason to fail.”
“For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future, but an excuse can last for life.”
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
“He who excuses himself accuses himself.”
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.”
“I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems.”
“If you always make excuses to not follow through you deserve the weight of anxiety on your chest.”
“If you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.”
“If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.”
“Instead of excuses, take action; you’ll be surprised how often you accomplish what you thought was difficult.”
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
“Leadership – leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.”
“Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.”
“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
“Once your excuses are gone, you will simply have to settle for being awesome!”
“Some people use excuses to not accept responsiblity, others use excuses as a way to justify.”
“The best excuse is to have none.”
“The only good excuse is that you have none.”
“The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.”
“The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.”
“There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one’s excuses. ”
“When you’re good at making excuses, it’s hard to excel at anything else.”
“Where the heart is willing it will find a thousand ways, but where it is unwilling it will find a thousand excuses.”
“You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can’t do both.”
“You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.”
Even the most ambitious and highest achievers in the marketplace fall short every so often. Excuses are just one way we go to cover up our failure.
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