Please don't fool yourself cause you can't fool me. I know what exactly you think right now and I also know what excuses you will bring to cover your nasty lies, but never forget that I will never ever believe you.

— Arash Tabish

Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN...

— Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream.

— Orrin Woodward

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes.

— Roy Bennett

Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

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

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time to pursue them is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

— Holly Lisle

Don’t be lazy. Hard work brings happiness. There is no other time to avoid being a lazy. Take that decision now. Kick laziness out.

— Israelmore Ayivor

Laziness is when your sleep overcomes your passion, not under the influence of drugs but under the control of excuses and procrastination!

— Israelmore Ayivor