Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.
Andy StanleyTags: excuses rationalism
There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.
Andy StanleyTags: excuses testimony glory-of-god
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-BurkeTags: suicide action excuses reaction cause blame accountability families analysis symptom counter-blame secret-elisions self-execution
Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed," he said. "And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses."
"Excuses, eh?" Well, if this ain't cynicism, what is?" Erens snorted.
"Yes, excuses," he said, with what Erens thought might just have been a trace of bitterness. "I strongly suspect the things people believe in are usually just what they instinctively feel is right; the excuses, the justifications, the things you're supposed to argue about, come later. They're the least important part of the belief. That's why you can destroy them, win an argument, prove the other person wrong, and still they believe what they did in the first place." He looked at Erens. "You've attacked the wrong thing.
Tags: belief excuses instinct arguments justifications erens
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 AyivorTags: procrastination work failure essence excuses taste excuse effective delay sour
You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment.
Israelmore AyivorTags: dance procrastination rain dream storm action today excuses dare go potential act move don-t-give-up start now never-give-up do-it this-moment don-t-quit right-now do-it-now
There is no state of being called "trying".
John YokoyamaIt is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.
John C. MaxwellEssentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself.
Steven BrownTags: determination excuses candor
Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.
Israelmore AyivorTags: success procrastination believe today excuses achievements dare tomorrow food-for-thought procrastinate plan successful achieve never-give-up package potentials believe-and-achieve dare-to-win excus instal installment installments
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