There's No Excuse

"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses" (George Washington Carver).

You are never a failure until you begin to blame somebody else. Stop blaming others. You can learn from your mistakes if you don't waste your time denying and defending them.

"It seems to me these days that people who admit they're wrong get a lot further than people who prove they're right" (Deryl Pfizer).

"Work brings profit; talk brings poverty" (Proverbs).

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to do when all they really need is one reason why they can" (Willis Whitney).

One of the biggest alibis is regret. The truth is, a thousand regrets do not pay one debt. Live your life so that your tombstone reads, "No regrets."

"The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing" (Somerset Maugham).

"Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it. It's only good for wallowing in" (Catherine Mansfield).

When a winner makes a mistake, he says, "I was wrong."
When a loser makes a mistake, he says, "It wasn't my fault."
A winner explains; a loser explains away.

Idle people lack no excuses. The word can't usually means you won't try. The word can't weakens our resolve and many times does more harm than slander or lies. Can't is the worst excuse and the foremost enemy of success.

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny" (Albert Ellis).