Quotes & Sayings About Reason And Excuses

That stunning fuckin' smile. I ain't ever seen you smile in the whole time you've been at the compound."

I lost my smile, then replied, "Because I do not have reason to smile very often."

Ky's fingers began tracing the back of my hand. "Then you make a reason, Li. Don't make excuses for living a shit life. It ain't rocket science. You don't like something, find something you do. Don't like being around someone, stay the fuck away. Wanna change your life, then get off your ass, bitch and fuckin' change it. — Tillie Cole

Once I stopped with the excuses, my life has changed. There's no reason for me to lose any more. — Travis Browne

It is not reason which turns the young man from God; it is the flesh. Skepticism but provides him with the excuses for the new life he is leading. — Augustine Of Hippo

There are reasons, and then there are excuses. — Julia Child

You have no reason to give up if you haven't tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first you don't succeed; Try no other option; Just try again with a better approach! — Israelmore Ayivor

There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses. — Robert Breault

...atheism leaves no room for excuses... — Travis Culliton

There are no excuses. There are no good reasons. — Eric Thomas

Objectively (i.e., in theory) there is utterly no conflict between morality and politics. But subjectively (in the self-seeking inclinations of men, which, because they are not based on maxims of reason, must not be called the [sphere of] practice [Praxis]) this conflict will always remain, as well it should; for it serves as the whetstone of virtue, whose true courage (according to the principle, "tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito")35 in the present case consists not so much in resolutely standing up to the evils and sacrifices that must be taken on; rather, it consists in detecting, squarely facing, and conquering the deceit of the evil principle in ourselves, which is the more dangerously devious and treacherous because it excuses all our transgressions with an appeal to human nature's frailty. — Immanuel Kant

Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one. — Daniel M. Gilbert

If you could not do much in the month of April with five letters, think of what really you can do with the month of May with three letters before you open the door of the month of June with four letters. Which is the break time for the entire twelve months of the year. Until you clearly understand how you are spending the year, you shall finish spending it and ponder over how you spent it, year after year! No one is absolutely free from excuses and the challenges of life. You just have to do something great with each day in the year! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I don't think I'm being harassed by little green stalkers. I don't know what's really going on, but I'd rather try to eliminate all rational excuses before blaming intergalactic monkeys from the fourth dimension who are somehow interested in this really boring town. — Thomm Quackenbush

But even though nobody from the government ever says anything out loud about a lack of evidence being the real reason nobody from these companies goes to jail, we're all - including reporters who cover this stuff - still supposed to accept that as the real explanation. It's a particular feature of modern American government officials, particularly Democratic Party types, that they often expect the press and the public to give them credit for their unspoken excuses. They'll vote yea on the Iraq war and the Patriot Act and nay for a public option or an end to torture or a bill to break up the banks. Then they'll cozy up to you privately and whisper that of course they're with you in spirit on those issues, but politically it just wasn't possible to vote that way. And then they start giving you their reasons. — Matt Taibbi

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity. — Oscar Wilde

And do you know why we have not the power to attain this Stoic ideal? It is because we refuse to believe in our power. Nay, of a surety, there is something else which plays a part: it is because we are in love with our vices; we uphold them and prefer to make excuses for them rather than shake them off. We mortals have been endowed with sufficient strength by nature, if only we use this strength, if only we concentrate our powers and rouse them all to help us or at least not to hinder us. The reason is unwillingness, the excuse, inability. — Seneca.

People keep making excuses, that's why everthing happens for a reason. — Roy Saputra

You can think up a million excuses to quit, and still not have an actual reason! Why waste all that brain power? — A.M. Sawyer

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses. — Robert Breault

It's said that people who give excuses for the reason not do something always formulate those excuses, waiting for the reason to surface to justify their excuses! — Israelmore Ayivor

You slipped for the same reason any alcoholic does. You wanted to drink. It seemed like the only option to make it through whatever moment you found yourself in. All the context around the decision is, for all intents and purposes, excuses. — Leta Blake

Don't try to prove to everybody that the reason why you can't is that nobody could. It's no excuse. You can break the tradition by being the first person to make it happen! — Israelmore Ayivor

Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy. — Dale Carnegie

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference. — John Engler

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault. — Robert Breault

I have been thinking about the idea of excuses for some time now. They are like menacing demons that creep into our lives without us knowing. They are roadblocks, white lies to ourselves, a reason to set the bar lower, and self-justification for achieving less than our full potential. — Lorii Myers

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason. - MARK TWAIN — Brian Tracy

Don't make excuses for why you can't get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen. — Ralph Marston

When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward. — Ralph Marston

Possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses one for asking any question
simple curiosity. I have a theory that it is always the women who propose — Oscar Wilde