62 Motivational Quotes about Excuses (aka Bad Habits in Disguise)

What's an excuse?

Simply put, " it's a reason or explanation put forward to defend or justify a fault or offense."

Many people's lives are proliferated with excuse after excuse. From school days - " My dog ate my homework " - to health, " I will start my new fitness routine on Monday" - and our professional lives, " I don't have time today, but tomorrow I'll finish that report "... the list goes on.

In a fantastic article posted on Forbes.com, " The 8 Most Damaging Excuses People Make For Their Unhappiness " goes on to list the following as reasons for people's unhappiness.

Have you ever used one of following 8 excuses?

1. I don't have the money to do this.


2. I'm not ready to do the work required to change.


3. I'm afraid of what I don't know.


4. What if it doesn't work out?


5. What would people say if I did this?


6. My family needs me to keep doing this.


7. I don't really believe it's going to work out.


8. This is just me - I can't change it.

All this being said, sometimes it's just easier to choose tomorrow as the day to get things done... but I want to let you in on a little secret - tomorrow never comes.

[caption id="attachment_18861" align="aligncenter" width="450"]Tomorrow will never come... there's only ever today.[/caption]

62 Motivational Quotes about Excuses (aka Bad Habits in Disguise)

Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win. - Chi Chi Rodriguez

[tweet_box float="right" width="50%" design="box_12"]I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. ― Florence Nightingale[/tweet_box]

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets. ― Steve Maraboli

Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can't use that as an excuse to fail or to hurt someone back. You'll only hurt yourself.

[caption id="attachment_18852" align="alignleft" width="360"]Procrastination on Autopilot: The Later Button[/caption]

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. Ambrose Bierce

Don't use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now! ― Bernard Kelvin Clive

Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do. ― John Steinbeck

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? - Frank Moore Colby

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life Oscar Wilde

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ― Benjamin Franklin

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. ― George Washington

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success. - John C. Maxwell

Kick the crutch out from under your excuses - Lorii Myers

We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine; and remember that we are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular. This is no time for men . . . to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. - Edward R. Murrow

Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help. ― Criss Jami, Killosophy

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice - George Bernard Shaw

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them. ― John Wooden

No one will ever blame you for trying to get it right. - Lorii Myers

[caption id="attachment_18851" align="alignright" width="330"]Oldest excuse in the book - My Dog Ate My Homework[/caption]

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. - Bill Clinton

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions. ― Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It?

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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 Ayivor

The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses. ― Amit Abraham

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it. ― Jordan Belfort

The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times. - Scott Spencer

There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses. ― Toba Beta

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. - Karolvig Viggo Mortensen

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. - François de la Rochefoucauld

We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams. ― Steve Maraboli

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. - Alexander Pope

Bad excuses are worse than none. - Thomas Fuller

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. -  Edward R. Murrow

Don't make excuses, make good. - Elbert Hubbard

Every vice has its excuse ready. - Publilius Syrus

[tweet_box design="box_12"]Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. - Don Wilder[/tweet_box]

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life. - Eric Hoffer

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. - Benjamin Franklin

[caption id="attachment_18859" align="alignleft" width="360"]Face Palming stops bad habits too... ;-)[/caption]

He who excuses himself, accuses himself. - Gabriel Meurier

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself. - Henry Ward Beecher

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. - Florence Nightingale

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. - Yiddish Proverb

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. - George Washington

It is easier to find an excuse than to find a reason. - Doug Brown

Never ruin an apology with an excuse. - Kimberly Johnson

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

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses. - Laura Schlessinger

[tweet_box design="box_12"]Several excuses are always less convincing than one. - Aldous Huxley[/tweet_box]

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

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. - Henry Ward Beecher

The trick is not how much pain you feel but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live; excuses, excuses, excuses. - Erica Jong

There aren't nearly enough crutches in the world for all the lame excuses. - Marcus Stroup

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results. - Art Turock

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness. ― Agatha Christie

[tweet_box float="right" width="40%" design="box_12"]Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. - Thomas Szasz[/tweet_box]

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions. - Charles Simmons

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses. - H. V. Adolt

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. - Rudyard Kipling

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life. - A.L. Williams

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