#excuses

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#cop-out #excuses #greater #i #important

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference. ↗

— John Engler

#claims #decision #difference #early #excuses

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#best #buck #coming #done #excuses

Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights. But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora. To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain. What's your excuse? ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#excuse #excuses #holiday #north #northern

People make up so many excuses why they couldn't call you. A real friend would find every reason in the world to call you. ↗

— Bianca Frazier

#busy-people #excuses #no-call #real-friends #business

The weak makes excuses, the strong makes changes. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#excuses #strong #weak #change

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is made of the world only through relationship between action and reaction, symptom and cause. No change is possible without analysis of accountability. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#action #analysis #blame #cause #counter-blame

Catching an STD doesn't excuse serial killing. ↗

— Kat Lowe

#humor #dreams

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confronting-problems #degrading #demeaning #equal #equality

For every forward action, there is an equally important forward reaction. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#no-excuses #reaction #equality