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Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it! Today is a new day!
Steve Maraboli
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
Thomas Szasz
It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod
We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams.
Bad excuses are worse than none.
Thomas Fuller
Don't make excuses, make good.
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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
Alexander Pope
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A.A. (Alan Alexandra) Milne
Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action!
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
He who excuses himself, accuses himself.
Gabriel Meurier
Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon -- the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
Yiddish Proverb
The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.
My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.
Charles Dickens
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes