Top 100 Life Excuses Quotes
#1. If fear is holding you back in life, you must attack it, Kate. Not make excuses about why you cannot attempt what you wish to do. That you can't because you're a woman. Especially you, given that your parents educated you as a son.
Gaelen Foley
#2. The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It's time to change. It's time to live life at a new level.
Tony Robbins
#3. I do what I have to do to survive because that's all I know. I don't make excuses, I own it. This is me, this is who I am, this is my life. It shames me but not enough to stop.
Karina Halle
#5. This mindset will eliminate any excuse and illuminate all possibilities. In the end, you will be liberated from fear and enthusiastically embrace a new form of living that will carry you to your goals.
Farshad Asl
#6. If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.
Holly Lisle
#7. Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?
Ingrid Weir
#8. When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.
Barbara "Cutie" Cooper
#9. It's not the circumstances of your life that are preventing you from being happy; it's the excuses you're making not to be happy! Like attracts like, happiness attracts happiness, so just drop the excuses - drop every one of them - and be happy now!
Rhonda Byrne
#10. The difference is that instead of turning the reality of your situation into an excuse, a "No Excuses" mindset turns it into a purpose that will propel your career and your life beyond its current state.
Farshad Asl
#11. You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
Arthur L. Williams Jr.
#12. If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse.
Shannon L. Alder
#13. We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.
Roy Bennett
#14. When you don't feel healthy, stop the excuses and do something. Just go outside, walk, breathe. Life's too short to fall into a rut. You are in charge of you - treat yourself well, and it'll show.
Jessica Stroup
#16. Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life.
Jose N. Harris
#17. Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action!
Steve Maraboli
#18. Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.
John Travolta
#19. Being single means getting used to your own company and not inventing excuses to keep people around you, None of which makes me feel any less bereft. The latest revelation: you have to relearn being your own again!
Mhairi McFarlane
#20. Don't make excuses; accept responsibility.
You must take responsibility for how you respond to everything that happens in your life; whether you cause it or not. Making excuses is a weak response!
Michelle Word Hollis
#21. A life hidden behind the veil of excuses leaves behind a blank page, but a life with the brilliant light of purpose shone upon it fills every page with wisdom.
Farshad Asl
#22. Every kid thinks they have something special about themselves. Every adult thinks they have a big idea at some point in their life. Rather than pursue every thing they possibly can to prepare themselves to enable their idea or special talent, they tend to wing it and make excuses.
Mark Cuban
#23. It is not reason which turns the young man from God; it is the flesh. Skepticism but provides him with the excuses for the new life he is leading.
Augustine Of Hippo
#24. If you haven't arrived yet, keep driving, your destiny is waiting for you.
Rob Liano
#25. It takes a lot to look at things the way they are, the mind warns of something while the heart still makes the excuses.
Mansi Soni
#27. In many cases, people hold on so tightly to their past pains to avoid letting go of the "excuses" and the fear of having to be accountable for their life.
Yvonne Pierre
#28. Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
Brian Tracy
#29. Once I stopped with the excuses, my life has changed. There's no reason for me to lose any more.
Travis Browne
#30. Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed.
Archibald Marwizi
#31. McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.
Anthony Horowitz
#32. Vulnerability brings honesty. We become most honest with ourselves when we are faced with real fear around a situation or an outcome. Yet many still stay in their comfort zone, listening to their own excuses and lies.
Tony Curl
#33. I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
Charles De Lint
#34. Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes.
Roy Bennett
#35. Living your life on your terms, means No excuses and only results.
LadyTiara
#36. 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
#38. From this moment forward ... I stop the blame game and excuses. I am responsible for my life and for where I am today. I cannot blame the people and circumstances in my past, and I refuse to hide behind my past mistakes.
Lance Wubbels
#39. Everyone leaves behind a legacy of some kind, but those who approach living with a 'No Excuses' mindset leave a legacy of value.
Farshad Asl
#40. Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.
Ann Brashares
#41. The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
Bob Moawad
#42. 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
#43. In a thing, they can create a pretext coined hundreds of excuses , but the truth is only one.
Khem Veasna
#44. Blame is a choice that doesn't give you directions out of hell.
Shannon L. Alder
#45. You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions.
Ray Dalio
#46. At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.
Steve Maraboli
#47. I knew at that moment I had to make a choice ... I could submit to everything and live a life of excuses, or I could push myself ... I could push myself and make my life good ...
Liz Murray
#48. Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself.
Steven Brown
#49. Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you want your life to work at a level you've never had before, then take responsibility for it.
Wayne Dyer
#50. Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance.
Bryant McGill
#51. 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
#52. Sometimes life just walks up to you, excuses itself and punches you in the face.
Mike Kunda
#53. Excuses; the great chains that entangle purposeful life to the pillar of unpurposeful living
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#54. 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
#55. She was too well acquainted with the way things work in real life. Real life sucked. But it was real. It was unapologetic. It made no excuses. It just was.
Maya Banks
#56. You can never truly understand or help others, even in your own family, unless you first look thoroughly into your own life and deal with your own sins without compromise, excuses, or evasion (Matthew 7:1-5).
John C. Broger
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Don't make excuses, don't blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!
Joel Osteen
#60. No excuses. No regrets. Just an incredible, meaningful, and exciting life!
Hal Elrod
#62. An entrepreneur is born, when a person has more reasons to drive his dreams against his excuses.
Sukant Ratnakar
#63. Stop making excuses of why you can't or how hard it is and start making your life matter.
John Patrick Hickey
#64. It is wise to direct your anger towards problems
not people; to focus your energies on answers
not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
#66. 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
#67. No buts, no excuses. Live life to your expectations, not anyone else's.
Komal Kant
#68. Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.
Tony Horton
#69. No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.
Junior Seau
#70. 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
#71. You must be willing to take whatever pieces of life come your way and arrange them so that they work with and for you rather than against you. The key is to be willing. The willingness to arrange rather than complain or make excuses will pay off.
Wayne Dyer
#72. How can you possibly do everything you want to do in life if you start doing a bunch of things twice?
Lorii Myers
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#77. Maybe you've understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agony, happiness and misery are just excuses for maintaining eternal loneliness, life offers neither great joy nor great sadness.
Orhan Pamuk
#78. 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
#79. Excuses can be your servant, but you must never become their slave.
Paul Clayton Gibbs
#80. Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above!
Steve Maraboli
#81. Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.
Jim Rohn
#82. There's no excuse ... for women today not to own their own power and lead an unlimited life.
Gloria Feldt
#83. 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
#84. Don't give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.
Joyce Meyer
#85. 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
#86. People are attracted to those who fully live life without excuses.
Peggy Sue Wells
#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. 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
#89. One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
Jack Canfield
#90. A life filled with excuses is defeated, unproductive, and miserable.
Stephanie Lahart
#91. I don't think I really accepted my power as a woman until I realized that no was a complete sentence. When I stopped making excuses for saying it and began creating boundaries in my life, I knew real power.
Leeza Gibbons
#92. 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
#93. The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant ... it's the excuses that change.
Rik Leaf
#94. You can change anything in your life if you want to badly enough. Excuses are for losers!
Anonymous
#95. 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
#96. 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
#98. When you take responsibility for your actions, accept that life isn't fair, get rid of excuses, become a doer, and develop an abundance mentality, you will break down many of the barriers keeping you from true success. You will be well on the way to maximizing the potential that God has given you.
Tommy Newberry
#99. 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
#100. Mistakes are not bad; excuses are.
Udai Yadla
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