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“In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.”

World Has Beens Hard Used Passion Three Half Achievement Empathy Excuse Obstacles Divorce Motherhood Traps Three Times Marriage And Divorce

Book:Fear of Fifty

Source: Fear of Fifty

“... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.”

Source: A Colored Woman in a White World

“The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.”

“Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.”

Science Values Results Achieve Achievement Research Experience Mere Excuse Idleness

Author:Benjamin Jowett

“Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.”

Inspirational Inspiration Motivational Results Powerful Leader Achievement Victim Excuse

Author:Robin Sharma

“Your excuses are nothing more than the lies your fears have sold you.”

Inspirational Inspiration Motivational Lying Achievement Excuse

Author:Robin Sharma

“For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.”

People Matter Lasts Failure Prove Achievement Dare Excuse Proving Yourself

Author:Eric Hoffer

“The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.”

Way Want Persons Achievement Determination Excuse

Author:John Templeton

“Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion.”

Thinking May Art Achievement Capable Regard Atheist Excuse Insight Believer Shoulders Preparation Good Work Incapable Boast Impossibility Skeptic Completion Continuation Unbelievers

Author:Karl Barth