Top 100 Excuses Are Quotes
#1. Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.
Israelmore Ayivor
#2. Excuses tell me two things about a person; they aren't honest with themselves, or others, and they believe I can't see they are lying to both of us - Tom too tall Cunningham
Tom Cunningham
#3. The only thing that stands in the way of an amazing life are the excuses you tell yourself as to why you can't achieve it
Steven Aitchison
#4. Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.
Bo Bennett
#5. Excuses are like butt holes everyone has 'em and they all stink.
Lois Greiman
#6. Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#7. The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.
Michael Bloomberg
#8. But listen to me
there are times in life when those kinds of excuses don't cut it anymore. Situations when nobody cares whether you're suited for the task at hand or not.
Haruki Murakami
#9. There are no excuses. There are no good reasons.
Eric Thomas
#11. There are times when we can blame a situation on others, but we own our reactions to them. There comes a point where we are the ones responsible for our choices and excuses don't carry weight anymore.
Penelope Douglas
#12. Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.
Steven Soderbergh
#13. Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.
Martti Ahtisaari
#14. In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses.
Paul Graham
#15. Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.
Dale Carnegie
#16. What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.
Mario Puzo
#18. After four hundred years of betrayals and excuses, Indians recognize the new fashion in racism, which is to pretend that the real Indians are all gone.
Peter Matthiessen
#19. If you're making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person.
Marina And The Diamonds
#20. Treat yourself like a fat person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck
you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.
Chalene Johnson
#21. Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.
Tony Horton
#22. Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?
Brian Tracy
#23. Millions of people, in all walks of life and in every endeavor, create distractions and excuses for themselves by focusing on tools rather than on character. They'd rather, as Socrates warned, focus on what they have than on what they are.
Eric Greitens
#24. A "No Excuses" mindset in your family stems directly from your personal growth. If you are not growing as a person, the first impact will affect your family.
Farshad Asl
#25. What do you do when all the excuses you used to not chase your dream are gone? What do you do then?
Jon Acuff
#26. Excuses are actually made for lazy People
-Samar Sudha
Samar Sudha
#27. It's no fun to lose, ... We haven't lost in a while and now we get to remember what it feels like. Everybody wants to be undefeated and that's what we wanted. There are no excuses.
Mark Richt
#28. Frank," Belinda sounded more drained than angry. "When are you going to stop making excuses for him?" "He had a bad day at practice yesterday," Hildy went on as if she hadn't heard. "He's always weird when he's been bad at practice.
Richie Tankersley Cusick
#29. Excuses are merely the cherry topping of an E.coli-infested sundae.
Gena Showalter
#30. Excuses are nothing more than neatly packaged reports on the messy, unknowable truth
Kelly Zekas
#31. Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no true excuses. This is our life. Step forward. Maybe it's only for ten minutes. That's okay. To write feels better than all the excuses.
Natalie Goldberg
#32. We are so afraid of the idea of having to die ... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn ...
Jose Saramago
#33. Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot harder to act responsibly when consumer credit contracts are designed to be incomprehensible, when prices are obscure and risks are hidden.
Elizabeth Warren
#34. Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
Bernd Heinrich
#35. Today's excuses are tomorrow's regrets dressed in disguise.
Steven Furtick
#36. Excuses are leaks in a boat. When you cover one, another pops up, and it's even bigger. It's hard to keep the boat repaired and get safely to shore if you have an excuse mind-set.
James Altucher
#37. My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.
Ken Venturi
#38. Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved.
Asa Don Brown
#39. Land, domination, pre-emptive attacks - all just excuses, mundane justifications that do nothing but disguise the simple distinction. They are not us. We are not them.
Steven Erikson
#40. It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
Ben Carson
#41. Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.
George R R Martin
#42. Excuses are another way of saying "I don't want to". Purpose doesn't happen without resistance. Push through the barrier.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#43. Don't bother explaining - I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
John Brunner
#44. Every child can learn, and we mean it ... excuses are not good enough, we need results.
Rod Paige
#45. Because family and friends are the foundation of who you are, this is a realm where no excuses should exist. Give them your all without excuses.
Farshad Asl
#46. We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#47. Excuses are like rear ends. Everybody has one and they stink.
Tom Curle
#48. Prioritise self-care & incorporate a MINIMUM of 60 mins 'ME TIME' into your daily routine.
YES THERE ARE enough hours in the day.
NO EXCUSES.
Miya Yamanouchi
#49. I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn't get the life you wanted.
Grant Cardone
#51. Our bodies are more than just a vehicle for our minds. They are the inspiration!
Lorii Myers
#54. The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#55. Mistakes are not bad; excuses are.
Udai Yadla
#56. Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.
Andrew Lansley
#57. We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.
Francis Chan
#58. Bold people dance happily when they are confronted with life's adventures ... they see themselves going through with smiles ... Give no excuse for being a coward. Be bold!
Israelmore Ayivor
#59. Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met ... I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.
Pope Francis
#60. When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.
Condoleezza Rice
#61. I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.
Bernie Siegel
#62. Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted.
A.R. Bernard
#63. When aspirations are perceived to be achievable, ambition and drive can erase excuses.
Lorii Myers
#64. We have to get rid of excuses, no matter why you are the way you are,
don't let it be an excuse to stay that way.
Joyce Meyer
#65. Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent. They build bridges to nowhere and tunnels to nothingness ... Those who excel in them seldom do in anything else, therefore, there are no excuses.
Frank Ocean
#66. I am free. If I want to be sad, it is my freedom. If I want to be happy, it is my freedom. Once you know that you are your world, you have penetrated into a different kind of understanding. Then nothing else matters - all else is games and excuses.
Rajneesh
#67. We clearly see in God's Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It's easier to come up with excuses for why we can't do things that are hard or that we really don't want to do.
Joyce Meyer
#69. People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Laura Schlessinger
#70. There are those dreamers who make excuses for why they aren't passionate about or creating anything to match their desires and then there's those dreamers who stay up late just to finish a goal that will get them up the next set of stairs. We all have dreams but not everyone makes it a reality.
Nikki Rowe
#71. Most come up with New Year Resolutions...
Others are busy making Excuses...
A few are following through with Execution...
Design your New Year Intentionally.
Farshad Asl
#72. A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.
Christy Hall
#73. Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you!
RuPaul
#74. The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#75. Abusiveness can be thought of as a recipe that involves a consistent set of ingredients: control, entitlement, disrespect, excuses, and justifications (including victim blaming) - elements that are always present, often accompanied by physical intimidation or violence.
Lundy Bancroft
#76. You can change anything in your life if you want to badly enough. Excuses are for losers!
Anonymous
#77. As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.
Michael Gove
#78. There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.
Millicent Fawcett
#79. We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.
Lesli Linka Glatter
#80. I'll be quite for now because I make mistakes too ... but once The Perfect Almighty One judges you, there are no excuses.
A Gentlemen
#81. There are only two kinds of employees that I've run across in 30 years. There are ones that get results, and ones that make excuses. If you're in that second camp, you're not going to like Dish.
Charlie Ergen
#82. Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!
Grant Cardone
#83. You need to stop making excuses for your mistakes, as long as you are complaining about what you did wrong you will never get started on doing it right
Carlton Young
#84. When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the driver's seat. Why wait for someone else to figure it out or do it? Expect that you are the one. Expect great outcomes. Expect that you are the best candidate and that you will achieve your goals.
Lorii Myers
#85. We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.
Lou Holtz
#86. There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#87. There are no excuses," he said at last. "But there are reasons. Reasons why we are what we are. Reasons why we do not have to stay that way.
Mercedes Lackey
#88. Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures.
James Altucher
#89. Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes
not often, but sometimes
the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.
Matthew Scully
#91. When your purpose and passion are in alignment, your work becomes your calling, your life becomes your dream, and your mindset becomes 20/20 in clarity.
Farshad Asl
#92. People are attracted to those who fully live life without excuses.
Peggy Sue Wells
#93. We are creating something tangible or creating excuses why we can't create.
Mike Sovelius
#94. Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.
Jay Samit
#95. Once your excuses are gone, you will simply have to settle for being awesome!
Lorii Myers
#96. Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.
Judith Martin
#98. Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
Steven Grayhm
#99. Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
George Eliot
