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#1

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

tags: excuses, humor

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#2

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

tags: confession, excuses, honesty, lies, lying, truth

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#3

“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

tags: actions, alarm, complaining, crying, crying-wolf, excuses, false, false-alarm, falsehood, justification, loneliness, responsibility, sympathy, whining, wolf, wolves

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#4

“Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.”
― John Wooden, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

tags: excuses

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#5

“There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: excuses, lie, promise

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#6

“I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse.”
― Florence Nightingale

tags: excuses, inspirational

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#7

“To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.”
― Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery

tags: excuses, explanations, weakness

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#8

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

tags: dishonesty, excuses

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#9

“Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.”
― George Patton

tags: excuses

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#10

“No one will ever blame you for trying to get it right.”
― Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success

tags: blame, excuses, make-it-happen

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#11

“Except in a very few matches, usually with world-class performers, there is a point in every match (and in some cases it's right at the beginning) when the loser decides he's going to lose. And after that, everything he does will be aimed at providing an explanation of why he will have lost. He may throw himself at the ball (so he will be able to say he's done his best against a superior opponent). He may dispute calls (so he will be able to say he's been robbed). He may swear at himself and throw his racket (so he can say it was apparent all along he wasn't in top form). His energies go not into winning but into producing an explanation, an excuse, a justification for losing.”
― C. Terry Warner, Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationship, Coming to Ourselves

tags: excuses, justification, losing, mindset, self-betrayal, tennis

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#12

“He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

tags: excuses

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#13

“Anyone can have an off decade.”
― Larry Cole

tags: excuses, humor, losers, self-effacement

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#14

“My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: avoidance, church, excuses, humor, pretext, vicarious-doings

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#15

“Excuses and complaints are signs of a dreamless life”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

tags: complainers, complaining, complaints, dreamless, dreamless-life, excuses, excuses-guys-make, loser-quotes

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#16

“Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life.”
― José N. Harris, Mi Vida

tags: control, drama, excuses, life, life-and-living

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#17

“You admit nothing. Deny everything. Demand proof. Did you learn nothing in Boot Camp?"
(Mace to Smitty)”
― Shelly Laurenston, The Mane Event

tags: humor, mace, sissy

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#18

“Manners without sincerity, is called polite society”
― Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single

tags: absurd, brilliant, comedy, funny, genius, humor, inspirational, irreverent-humor, manners, polite, sincerity, society

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#19

“There is a sort of mental treason
That smothers dreams outside of reason”
― Mike Corbett, Laughter of the Damned

tags: afterlife, demons, heaven, hell, intelligent-humor, irreverent-humor, politics, religion, satan, satire

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#20

“First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.”
― Steve Martin

tags: black-humor, gallows-humor, irreverent-humor

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#21

“Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard, however, since this endearing quality frequently masquerades as wit.”
― Mike Corbett

tags: afterlife, demons, heaven, hell, intelligent-humor, irreverent-humor, politics, religion, satan, satire

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#22

“No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny.”
― Mike Corbett, Laughter of the Damned

tags: afterlife, demons, heaven, hell, intelligent-humor, irreverent-humor, politics, religion, satire

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