Robert Orben Quotes

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Players often look for alibis - it's easy to give the blame to others.

If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.

I say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.'

I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

To err is human. To blame somebody else is politics.

It's easy to give up. It's even easier to start pointing fingers.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

It's not the time to look for excuses.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

It's not how you play the game, it's how you place the blame.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

An excuse is sometimes more ugly than guilt.

Don't try to shift your responsibilities on to somebody else.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble ... deny your responsibility.

I said what I said, but I shouldn’t have said it.