#excuse

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#excuses #finds #himself #man #never

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. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#best #blame #effort #excuse #journey

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#crime #destiny #excuse #failure #fool

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#course #day #days #easy #even

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#live #may #only #peace #war

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#change #everyone #excuses #feel #make

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#benefit #casually #curious #doing #doing the right thing

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#day #enough #escape #excuse #get

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

— Benjamin Franklin

#else #excuses #good #making #seldom

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#been #done #excuses #failures #greatest