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  • A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that

    Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.25, Human Kinetics
  • People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.

    Funny   Humor   People  
  • I just want to assure you that both President Bush and I have very firm alibis.

    President   Want   Alibis  
    "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. August 6, 2004.
  • You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel

  • You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

  • A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

    Sports   Writing   Guy  
  • Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

    Goal   May   Stones  
    Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.37, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA
  • this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.

    Life   Dream   Loss  
    Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
  • The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.

    Opportunity   Men   Two  
  • All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

    Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust
  • A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.

    Terry Brooks (2009). “A Princess of Landover”, p.135, Del Rey
  • You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.

    Strong   Stars   Eye  
  • Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

    Napoleon Hill (2016). “Your Right to Be Rich”, p.108, Jaico Publishing House
  • Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.

    "Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way". Book by Steven Pressfield, 2011.
  • People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.

    Believe   Air   People  
    Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.216, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA
  • Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

    Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”
  • Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.

  • You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.

    People   Mind   Trying  
  • The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In an affluent society, the alienated who clamor for power are largely untalented people who cannot make use of the unprecedented opportunities for self-realization, and cannot escape the confrontation with an ineffectual self.

  • IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.

    Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.218, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA
  • Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.

    Suicidal   Long   Wife  
  • It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players.

  • 'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

    Movie   Home   Actors  
  • You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

  • A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.

    Loss   Blame   Loser  
  • When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

    Margaret Millar (1942). “The weak-eyed bat”, Published for The Crime club by Doubleday, Doran
  • No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

    Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.195, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA
  • In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice one punishes...in the name of love of one's country or of one's race hates other countries, despises them, massacres them. In the name of equality and brotherhood there is suppression and torture. There is nothing in common between the means and the end, the means go far beyond the end...ideologies and religion... are the alibis of the means.

    Country   Hate   Mean  
  • The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

    Peace   War   Tyrants  
    Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.101, Vintage
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