426 Quotes About Excuses

Once an excuse has been deployed, brutal honesty is no longer an option.

If you want to write, here's a secret: the writer's struggle is overrated, a con game, a cognitive distortion, a self-fulfilling prophecy, the best excuse for not writing. "Why should I get writer's block?" asked the mischievous Roger Simon. "My father never got truck driver's block.

You could always make an excuse not to make a change.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time to pursue them is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

A life hidden behind the veil of excuses leaves behind a blank page, but a life with the brilliant light of purpose shone upon it fills every page with wisdom.

August is a gentle reminder for not doing a single thing from your new year resolution for seven months and not doing it for next five.

Get off the excuse train because it’s full.

The argument that a particular project will be "self-financing" is usually the first refuge of politicians defending the indefensible.

...whether you're talking about boners, infidelities, late rent, or the Democratic primary: a single plausible excuse will sound like a credible explanation while a basket full of excuses—even a basket stuffed with equally legitimate, plausible/probable excuses—will sound like a desperate/unbelievable lie.