George Washington Carver Quotes
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Quotes to Explore
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
Edmund White
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
G. M. Trevelyan
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
Orison Swett Marden
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
Carlos Santana Santana
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson
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I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'
Naomi Klein
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I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.
Cam Newton
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Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
Balthazar Getty
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If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.
Mahavira
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To want your own way is a very bad habit, for you will never get it.
E. W. Howe
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The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end...
Maimonides
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What is the reason that we find it so satisfactory to make excuses to ourselves-the only persons in the world to whom they must be altogether needless ?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.
Anthony Trollope
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Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind.
Bertrand Russell
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'Cause a costume can be comfortableIt can make you feel more beautifulIt can even make you look like someone elseBut it's still you, so there's nothing you can doLike a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always isAnd it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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I don't make a habit of watching my parents' films, because it is a little strange. But I will say that I binge watch 'House of Cards' compulsively, and I think it's the first time I've ever seen one of my mom's projects and totally forgot she was my mom!
Dylan Penn
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We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Serj Tankian System Of A Down
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God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.
Charles Stanley
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My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
David Mamet
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When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
Saint Augustine
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The hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the Sermon on the Mount, but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm.
Bertrand Russell
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver