Find Excuses Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I guess we always find excuses to keep on with our bad habits, don't we?

Stephen King

#3. If they want to be in your life, they'll find a way to be in your life. Otherwise they'll find excuses.

Mandy Hale

#4. I really cannot tolerate people who always find excuses or reasons why certain things won't work. Find reasons and solutions to make it work.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#5. They would always find excuses to slip away, afraid to reveal the narrowness of their knowledge.

Daniel Keyes

#6. Find excuses to live. Find excuses to be happy. The world provides enormous opportunities to the courageous.

Girdhar Joshi

#7. Today I will work when others procrastinate, I will confront my fears when others hide from theirs, and I will create solutions when others find excuses; today I refuse to allow my enemies to out work me.

Noel DeJesus

#8. I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.

Tahar Rahim

#9. If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

Gordon Strachan

#10. You don't think marriage is serious?" "Of course, I do. It is the ultimate test of maturity, and many find excuses for avoiding it because they know they are not up to the challenge, or capable of carrying on a mature relationship.

Louis L'Amour

#11. No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

Bertrand Russell

#12. As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

Goran Ivanisevic

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. I always wanted to get out of L.A., but time passes, and you find excuses to stay.

Robin Wright

#16. What do you suppose we would do," I said conversationally, "if we ever had sex? I mean, what would we call each other? Captain and Walker? Morrison and Detective? Or would we just find excuses to not call each other anything?

C.E. Murphy

#17. Don't make excuses; rather, find support and resources to make good things happen for yourself, your family, your businesses, your community, and the world you live in.

Anna Stevens

#18. Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways; where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses.

Arlen Price

#19. When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary, but holding on to your old stories is just another way of wasting precious time.

James Arthur Ray

#20. If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Rita Mae Brown

#22. I come up with the silliest excuses when it's time to work out. I'll be like, 'Oh no! Now I have to go and find some socks.'

Christina Hendricks

#23. Limited money and family obligations have never stopped a man who really wanted to do something, although they provide excuses for a man who is not really up to the creative challenge in the first place. Find out today whether you are willing to do what it takes.

David Deida

#24. I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

Johan Santana

#25. It's really, really easy to make excuses as to why we can't go to the gym. If you can find time to sit in front of the TV for 45 minutes, you can find time to work out.

Jill Wagner

#26. Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

Alexander Pope

#27. It's too easy when you're not winning to look for excuses and point at others for reasons. You ca say 'Oh well, it's this guys fault or they don't do this well', or you can say 'I've got to play better and contribute more'. You've got to find another gear and come up with big games.

Sean Burke

#28. I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior we would just say, "I was an asshole. Sure, there were reasons behind it, but that doesn't matter.

Colin Quinn

#29. To seventy excuses for him. If you cannot find any, convince yourselves that it is an excuse you do not know.13

Tariq Ramadan

#30. Anyone can find an excuse. It takes a special person to find the time

Linda Poindexter

#31. I used to exercise an hour every day - no excuses. I live in absolutes: I either exercise every day, or I let myself off the hook. I'm trying to find that balance of working out three or four days a week and sticking to it.

Anna Kendrick

#32. Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame
but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.

Benjamin Carson

#33. Find $50 a month for savings. No excuses!

Suze Orman

#34. Look for excuses to celebrate others, and life will find a way to celebrate you.
Make your life a prayer and be the light that touches lives far, wide and beyond.

Pooja Ruprell

#35. For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

John Le Carre

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. You won't find your dream until you lose your excuses.

Orrin Woodward

#40. And I could find other excuses to get out and sit on the crisp grass and look out over the airy roof of Yorkshire. It was like taking time out of life. Time to get things into perspective and assess my progress.

James Herriot

#41. Why, then, even when I advanced, was I so quick to retreat? Why did I always have ready a gracious smile, a happy laugh, when things went badly? Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?

Elena Ferrante