Top 100 Excuses Excuses Quotes
#1. People can't handle guilt. Their minds won't let them for very long. So they make up excuses. Excuses work like a salve, allaying the guilt, letting you forget the real problem.
Darynda Jones
#2. CHARACTER
Incomplete actions give birth to excuses. Excuses give birth to lies.
Repeated lies give birth to a bad character.
Sirshree
#3. The trick is not how much pain you feel
but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
Erica Jong
#4. I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.
Cam Newton
#5. Life is about choices; it's not about excuses. Excuses only trap us into believing that we cannot take control of our own lives.
Michael Gerber
#6. 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
#7. When you lay down with neglect & sleep around with excuses, you wake up with failure ...
When you marry your goals & remain intimate with your vision, you'll give birth to your dreams.
Jay Danzie
#8. The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.
Mason Cooley
#9. Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off.
George Osborne
#10. If a man must make excuses for himself, continually argue with himself that he is a man, then he is better off dead.
Elmore Leonard
#11. No one will ever blame you for trying to get it right.
Lorii Myers
#12. There are no excuses. There are no good reasons.
Eric Thomas
#13. Until we see the 'this- advantage' in the disadvantage we shall always be looking at the disadvantages in life. life does not present us with disadvantages, it gives us 'this- advantages' to take. It is only because of excuses and low courage that we regard 'this advantages' as disadvantages
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#14. Catching an STD doesn't excuse serial killing.
Kat Lowe
#15. If all you do is make excuses, then that is how people see you. Make your strengths visible.
Marla Runyan
#16. Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn't matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses.
Tom Platz
#17. Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.
Robert H. Schuller
#18. Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
Sinclair Lewis
#21. We turned into each other's best excuse for not doing the things we were afraid of.
Tracy Guzeman
#22. 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
#23. Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.
Haruki Murakami
#24. When the rains make your feathers wet, don't sit and cry and don't wait for your wet feathers to get dry before you start to fly; start flying and your wet feathers will start drying!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#25. Stop making excuses for why you can't let yourself have this. It's not conventional but that doesn't mean it isn't real. What's more important? Loving the man that loves you, or trying to achieve this bullshit idea you have of what a perfect relationship is supposed to be?
Stacey Wallace Benefiel
#26. A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.
Robert Breault
#27. You have no reason to give up if you haven't tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first you don't succeed; Try no other option; Just try again with a better approach!
Israelmore Ayivor
#28. The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.
Rob Bell
#29. Excuses are merely the cherry topping of an E.coli-infested sundae.
Gena Showalter
#30. No race is more adept than humans at weaving a mask of excuses, at ultimately claiming good intent. And no race is more adept at believing its own claims. How many wars have been fought, man against man, with both armies espousing that god, a goodly god, was on their side and in their hearts? But
R.A. Salvatore
#31. Core passions and aspirations should be consistent and in sync.
Lorii Myers
#32. When a man is willing to find an excuse for being God's enemy he need never be at a loss. He who hath to find a fact may find some difficulty; but he who would forge a lie may sit at his own fireside and do it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#33. You can make money or you can make excuses. Your choice.
John Addison
#34. She was an original ... She was an eccentric. She'd come alive like a fire, telling funny stories and entertaining everyone, then she'd suddenly run out of fuel, make her excuses and leave. You always knew when she'd had enough. Those that didn't would find themselves talk to the walls.
Santa Montefiore
#35. You're scared of the way I make you feel because you don't want to feel anything. Man up and tell me you don't want me, but don't make excuses.
Maya Banks
#36. When you stop making excuses, you start making progress!
Lasean Rinique
#37. Beer is my coffee.
Moi
#38. My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.
Ken Venturi
#39. You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses
Bill Gates
#40. Don't use your past history as an excuse to be miserable. Use your past as a testament to show the world just how far you have come.
Miya Yamanouchi
#41. Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Mason Cooley
#43. So what if you hurt him? He'll hurt you. You'll hurt each other. That's what love is about, right? You can't know what'll happen till you actually try it. Don't try to make excuses like you're protecting him.
Michelle Painchaud
#44. That Dr. Morrissey had always said that we found excuses to put off doing something that would take our minds off our worries. It was as if we didn't want to lose the luxury of worrying.
Maeve Binchy
#45. It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.
John C. Maxwell
#46. I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the
lights may have been a problem ...
Kevin Keegan
#47. Author Kenneth Blanchard says, "There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results." That's what leaders do. They commit and follow through.
John C. Maxwell
#48. Leave your excuses behind, and you will begin to attract wealth.
Joe Vitale
#49. [Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#50. A powerful wind swept through the shtetl, making it whistle. Those studying obscure texts in dimly lit rooms looked up. Lovers making amends and promises, amendments and excuses, fell silent.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#52. I'm not a rookie anymore-no more excuses about being young.
Adrian Beltre
#53. I am determined to have the headache Thursday, if I have to hit myself with a rock to do it.
Patricia C. Wrede
#54. I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
Ace Frehley
#56. Do you ever shut up? There's nothing wrong with you. You're just looking for excuses not to be brave.
Hilary T. Smith
#58. Never make an excuse for being yourself, no one's going to do it better.
Ron Baratono
#59. It is wise to direct your anger towards problems
not people; to focus your energies on answers
not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
#60. He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.
Samuel Foote
#61. We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
Margaret Fuller
#62. You slipped for the same reason any alcoholic does. You wanted to drink. It seemed like the only option to make it through whatever moment you found yourself in. All the context around the decision is, for all intents and purposes, excuses.
Leta Blake
#63. When your reasons rise above your excuses, so will you.
Orrin Woodward
#64. 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
#65. Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
John Selden
#66. As an entrepreneur you own your business, you expand your brand, you increase your impact, you live with no excuses, and you enjoy your intentional growth daily.
Farshad Asl
#67. Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you?
Alexandre Dumas
#68. Don't make excuses - make improvements!
Tyra Banks
#69. There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.
Andy Stanley
#71. People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Laura Schlessinger
#72. When you're stressed, you eat ice cream, cake, chocolate and sweets. Why? Because stressed spelled backwards is desserts.
Anonymous
#73. It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
Bobby Darin
#74. We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
David Frum
#76. Poor Excuses for Men {Couplet}
Every now and then good ink flows fluent from my playful pen,
Causing jealous minds to moulder in these poor excuses for men.
Beryl Dov
#78. The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
#79. Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
Frank Gehry
#80. Pound it out, get it done, write every day. No excuses. Kerouac said you can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. Damn straight. You'll sleep a lot better getting your word count in than another quick Twitter check or keeping up to date on the Kardashians.
Dan Alatorre
#81. Don't make excuses for your mistakes.
Don't try to please your enemies.
Don't run from your responsibilities.
Don't force your opinions on others.
Don't complain about things you can change.
Don't compare yourself to anyone.
Don't let undeserving people into your life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#82. This is amazing," Volodya said. "He's the President, yet he has to make excuses all the time for what he does!"
"Something like that," Woody said. "We call it democracy.
Ken Follett
#83. If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.
Orrin Woodward
#84. If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it
George Foreman
#85. Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures.
James Altucher
#86. I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything.
Tippi Hedren
#87. The greatest excuse you must have is the excuse to do your best to the very best and in a distinctive manner
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#88. Uncomplicate it. Don't make excuses. Some of life's biggest heartaches come from missed opportunities and lame excuses. Don't miss out on what could be the best chapter in your life because you're too busy rereading the last one.
Kandi Steiner
#90. He didn't ask for any of this, did he?" "None of them did, come to that." Logan responded. "But that's what life does to you. It gives you a whole lot of stuff you don't ask for and expects you to deal with it. No complaining, no excuses.
Terry Brooks
#91. There's no excuse ... for women today not to own their own power and lead an unlimited life.
Gloria Feldt
#92. Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
George Eliot
#94. Don't think, he'd said, because it was easier than saying, Take me for who I am.
He couldn't bear that suddenly. He wanted it without pretences, without excuses, his fingers curling hard into Laurent's hair.
'It's me,' said Damen. 'It's me, here with you. Say my name.'
'Damianos.
C.S. Pacat
#95. Not now" easily grows to become "never"; You either do it now or lose it forever!
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. Kick the crutch out from under your excuses
Lorii Myers
#97. Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.
Vaclav Havel
#98. Since the fall of the human race, we've been alternately telling ourselves that we are good, that if we try hard enough we'll be good enough, or that being or that being good is an impossibility, so we should just give up and have fun.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#99. We all are manufacturers in a way - making good, making trouble or making excuses.
H. V. Adolt
#100. At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones.
Lee P. Brown
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