“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s we do not accept them easily enough.”
“If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.”
“To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.”
“Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.”
“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.”
“If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.”