#excuses

Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life. ↗

— José N. Harris

#drama #excuses #life #life-and-living #life

Once I ran out of excuses, I reclaimed my life. Now, I don't need excuses. ↗

— Jamie Anne Richardson

#happiness #positive-thinking #life

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

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#excuses #failures #habit #making #ninety-nine

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

For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit I have never had a great love or a great friendship; but that is because I never met a man or a woman who were worthy of it; if I have not written any very good books, it is because I had not the leisure to do so; or, if I have had no children to whom I could devote myself it is because I did not find the man I could have lived with. So there remains within me a wide range of abilities, inclinations and potentialities, unused but perfectly viable, which endow me with a worthiness that could never be inferred from the mere history of my actions.” But in reality and for the existentialist, there is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving; there is no genius other than that which is expressed in works of art. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#life #meaning #art

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