Quotes Tagged "excuses"

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

Successful people don’t use the obstacles of time, education, and money as excuses...they use them as leverage to get help.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

There are millions of ways to make millions of dollars legally.

A successful person doesn't make excuses. They deal with reality.

Leave God out of your mess and go look in the mirror instead.

Work-life balance” seems to have become the best excuse for many people not to take responsibility for their professional and personal growth. But this “balance” that all of us love to talk about is not something conceptual. It is achieved by strategic, focused, hard work. It doesn’t come by default or when we say the magic words. That’s why many of us are leading lives far from our potential for success and fulfillment — because we wait for balance to happen, and it never does. I’ve been there, and it sucks. Most of us haven’t taken a single hour of our lives to think about what work-life balance means to us. Needless to say, we put zero effort into planning about it, working for it, living it. Open your calendar and show me what your work-life balance looks like. In 99 percent of cases, it’s not there — it’s nowhere to be found.

You can have excuses or you can have success; you can't have both.

Don’t wait for perfect conditions because life has no perfect conditions. The secret to success lies in your ability to do more with less.

Never try to make excuses for people. Sometimes a person might be good, but not be good for you. Other times, a person’s not good because they’re just not good - all they bring you is heartaches, misery and all things undeserving. And you need to understand that it’s alright for a person to be bad and that not even you can change them, unless they want to.

Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other bad attitudes, his/her relevance is meaningless.

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

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

It's a great thing about being pregnant - you don't need excuses to pee or to eat.

I'm sorry that I haven't won the PGA Championship. That would be something that would have pleased me very much. I suppose when I look back, I have a lot of reasons and excuses for not having won the PGA.

Illiberal feminists turn simple ideological disagreements, whether about the federal budget or the Second Amendment or anything else, into excuses to engage in character assassination, dismissing their opponents as sexists.

I can think of many reasonable excuses for needing a cocktail, but Cinco De Mayo is always a no-brainer.

Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.