Max Joseph Quotes

People who see themselves as victims are known not to be sensitive to the suffering of others.

I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

An excuse is sometimes more ugly than guilt.

He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor.

We have 40 million reasons for our failure but not one excuse.

If someone has it inside them to commit an act, then that act would be committed anyway. It's very easy for someone to place the blame on something other than the person who committed the act. It's people looking for scapegoats, you know?

I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.