"Every life is its own excuse for being."
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"Don't fall in love with your own excuses."
"SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong."
"Excuses are the words coming from the loser in you."
"The excuses we make destroy the results we deserve"
"The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."
"Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss."
"Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses"
"Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?"
"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."
"Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness."
"Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used."
"We have to get rid of excuses, no matter why you are the way you are, don't let it be an excuse to stay that way."
"The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future."
"A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse."
"I'm going to live until I die, and everything in between is just another excuse to eat peanut butter."
"You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose."
"Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity."
"Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals."