175 Quotes About Justification

The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.

A true King would not waste time justifying or explaining. He would simply state his will.

You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.

Denial is the escape that never allows us to escape.

I can rather effectively protect myself from failure by crafting genuinely convincing rationales that justify my unwillingness to try. But I might consider the fact that an action such as this is the real failure. And there’s no protection in that.

Blame is the coward’s solution to his fear of accountability.

Survival justifies any means.

Ignorance is the belief that the inevitable will not show up.

The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.