Quotes and Sayings about Excuses

Harvey Specter in Suits - Season 1 Episode 12

The only opponents who aren't coming up with excuses for being defeated by me are computers.

Bobby Fischer (World Chess Champion)

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

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 in The Wolf of Wall Street

Motivation

In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.

Pep Guardiola

Quotes about Football/Soccer

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Christopher Hitchens

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

Florence Nightingale

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

George Washington Carver

Excuses are easy to manufacture, and hard to sell.

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Not all lies are bad, just as the truth is not always good.

New Moon Luna in Epic Seven

Lies

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

Rebecca Yarros in The Empyrean - Fourth Wing

Lies Truth

The bigger the lie, the more people believe in it.

Adolf Hitler

Lies

Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 2: Tower Lord

Lies

Give them the right lie and they'll believe it.

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 1: Blood Song

Lies

Which is worse: A lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear?

Bryan Bedford in Miracle on 34th Street

Lies Truth

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

Blue Fairy in Pinocchio

Lies

Sometimes, lies are more interesting than the truth.

Alison DiLaurentis in Pretty Little Liars

Lies

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

John Gotti

Lies

It's not lies that cut but the sharpness of the truth.

Camille, the Steel Shadow in League of Legends

Lies

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Harlan Coben

Lies Truth

Lies are exactly what people tell to make life more bearable. To avoid pain and suffering and hurting people.

Marina Nunier Osuna in Élite - Season 1 Episode 5

Lies

When enough people make false promises, words stop meaning anything. Then there are no more answers, only better and better lies.

Jon Snow in Game of Thrones - Season 7 Episode 7

Lies Loyalty

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

William Somerset Maugham

Lies

When someone points a gun at you, you don't turn around and run away. You take it out of their hand and you point it right back.

Harvey Specter in Suits - Season 5 Episode 8

Argument

The last thing a lion wants is to have his dinner handed to him on a silver platter.

Harvey Specter in Suits - Season 4 Episode 1

Lions Hunting

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Pope Johannes Paul II

Present

How others see you is not important. How you see yourself is everything.

Harvey Specter in Suits

Self-Confidence Popularity Motivation

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

Roger Staubach

Winning

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

Bobby Fischer

Chess

A good player knows how to win the game, a good character knows how to lose it, while smiling.

Character Playing Losing & Defeat

You know how the game of chess is played. Pieces must be sacrificed!

Orochimaru in Naruto

Chess

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Jules Renard

Sky

...yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Kindness

I take quaaludes ten to fifteen times a day for my "back pain", adderall tostay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again and morphine well... 'cause its awesome.

Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street

Drugs Cocaine

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Courage Motivation

I can't believe it, maybe he's a liar! He's so good for 17 years old, he's a fantastic player. There was one moment when he didn't get the ball from central defenders, how he shouts and demands that ball to him at 17 means a lot.

Pep Guardiola - September 2020

Jude Bellingham

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

Nick Hornby in Fever Pitch

Quotes about Football/Soccer Falling in love

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

Christopher Hitchens

Cats Dogs

If you're born with wings, you should do whatever you can to make them fly.

Florence Nightingale

Wings

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

George Washington Carver

Education

Sometimes, bitter memories become very sweet when you share them with a friend.

Donna Paulsen in Suits - Season 4 Episode 2

Memories Friendship

'I'll tell you right now, die answer is no."
Mike Ross: "Good."
'Why good?"
Mike Ross: "Because a yes is always so much better when it starts as a no."

Mike Ross in Suits - Season 4 Episode 1

In your position the spotlight can become an interrogation lamp pretty damn fast.

Jessica Pearson in Suits - Season 3 Episode 13

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