Ben Carson Quotes

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

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

Making excuses is not my profile or that of Madrid.

I learned a long time ago that no one wants to hear excuses.

You can blame outside factors or make excuses about why things didn't work out, but that doesn't change anything.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Difficulty comes not only because of your mistakes, but once you try to make an excuse or accuse someone else, your mind stops thinking.

One thing I realized, I was making too many excuses and not taking responsibility for how I was playing.

I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.

I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

It's not the time to look for excuses.

You have to talk about mistakes and then talk about what you have learned and how to move forward. You acknowledge missteps right away, you deal with them, and you move ahead.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.

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

I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything.

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.