Top 100 Make Excuses Quotes
#1. The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
Tony Abbott
#3. We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.
John Madden
#4. There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.
Rico Love
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Don't try to prove to everybody that the reason why you can't is that nobody could. It's no excuse. You can break the tradition by being the first person to make it happen!
Israelmore Ayivor
#8. No one will ever blame you for trying to get it right.
Lorii Myers
#9. We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.
Nelson Mandela
#10. It was easier to make excuses, to look for reasons and flaws, than to just admit the simple truth.
Romina Russell
#11. And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
Octavia Butler
#12. 10 Keys To Success:
Focus
Perseverance
Ability to adapt
Diplomacy
Flexibility
Open to change
Make no excuses
Complain little
Personal responsibility
Faith
Charles F. Glassman
#13. Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it.
Gary Cox
#14. Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.
John Wooden
#15. Tell the President to stand up to our enemies, not cower to them or make excuses for them!
Jim Gilmore
#16. I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.
Julia Child
#17. 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
#18. If all you do is make excuses, then that is how people see you. Make your strengths visible.
Marla Runyan
#19. 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
#20. I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.
Peter Storey
#22. I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't expect an artist to give me credit. I know that they're gonna take the credit for everything. But, it's my job to give myself that exposure and not make excuses, not grow bitter.
Rico Love
#23. Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.
Amy Chua
#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. People only see what they want to see, and they only do whatever they want to do. You can make excuses for them all you like, but you'll always be making excuses for them,
Jade West
#27. God. I haven't been very good.
The metal whined in protest.
I could have tried harder. I could've been a better person. I stand before you now as I am. I make no excuses.
The beams gave, bending.
Please, have mercy on me,
Ilona Andrews
#28. You can make money or you can make excuses. Your choice.
John Addison
#29. That was magic for you, right? The thing about magic, the real kind: it didn't make excuses, and it was never funny.
Lev Grossman
#30. Don't make excuses, don't blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!
Joel Osteen
#31. 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
#32. Males will always make excuses for the pretty.
G.A. Aiken
#33. 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
#34. Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.
Joyce Meyer
#35. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
Brian Tracy
#36. You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses
Bill Gates
#37. Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Mason Cooley
#38. If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
Hanif Kureishi
#39. 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
#40. When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.
Vince Lombardi
#41. I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the
lights may have been a problem ...
Kevin Keegan
#42. Don't make excuses for me. I was an ass. I'm still an ass. I broke up with you, and you deserve better.
Sara Daniel
#43. Leaders don't make excuses. They create results
Robin Sharma
#44. It is easier to make excuses about our circumstances than actually do anything about them.
Jeffrey Fry
#45. [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
#48. 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
#49. When you've been hurt, you don't make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That's his mama's job.
Catherine Anderson
#50. I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.
David Wells
#51. 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
#52. Never make an excuse for being yourself, no one's going to do it better.
Ron Baratono
#53. This might be the last time you get to drive the beef bus to tuna town," I say. "You'd better make it good, so I don't have any excuses to forget your hot ass.
Kendall Grey
#54. She thanked me for not trying to make what I did seem less by offering a lot of excuses.
Stephen Chbosky
#55. Excuses satisfy no one and apologies make everyone uncomfortable
Robert Greene
#56. We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
Margaret Fuller
#57. Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.
Jaleigh Johnson
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. Make no excuses for the devils that will not excuse you of their burdens, Miss Crane. - Darien Nicodemeus; Chapter Sixteen - The Giant's Return
S.C. Parris
#62. When you heart knows it doesn't belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue.
Shannon L. Alder
#63. When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.
Derek Jeter
#64. People make excuses [for not wanting to fight me]. It has a lot to do with my style. I'm a crafty fighter but I can also punch.
Erislandy Lara
#65. In art it is not often possible to make direct use of your dreams of tomorrow and your excuses for yesterday.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#66. The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. Don't make excuses - make improvements!
Tyra Banks
#68. 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
#69. The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims. Terrified of offending butchers, we insist that we're the bigots, not them. We make excuses for monsters.
Ralph Peters
#70. What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice!
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#71. 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
#72. Work hard and never make excuses.
Master P
#73. Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.
Rebecca Goldstein
#74. Make excuses to train not excuses not to train!
Brock Larson
#75. God my Creator said, 'Go and make disciples.' So I don't want to sit and make excuses.
Francis Chan
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame.
Ray Bourque
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.
Robin Sharma
#83. You can make EXCUSES and earn SYMPATHY,
OR
You can make MONEY and earn ADMIRATION.
The choice is always yours ...
Manoj Arora
#84. If you want it, you can have it, Imogen. Don't make excuses because you're scared, he remarked harshly, almost angrily.
A Meredith Walters
#85. If anyone tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, don't make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: " He does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these.
Epictetus
#87. I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.
Leon Redbone
#88. I CHOOSE to live by choice not by chance, to be motivated not manipulated, to be useful not used, to make change not excuses, to excel not compete. I CHOOSE self-esteem not self pity. I choose to listen to my inner voice, NOT TO LISTEN TO THE RANDOM OPINIONS OF OTHERS.
Auliq Ice
#89. 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
#92. Yes I make mistakes that I don't ever make excuses for
Drake
#93. Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.
Orrin Woodward
#95. For the things we want to do, we make time. For the things we don't want to do, we make excuses.
Jennifer Dahl
#96. I try to serve the character all the time; this one took a lot of work and was consuming. It's like climbing up a ladder and sometimes you're afraid to face yourself so you make excuses; you avoid going to the top of the ladder and look in the mirror.
Forest Whitaker
#97. If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave.
Paul Gascoigne
#98. Women like to believe that their men are nicer than they actually are," Jodi adds. "They make excuses for them. They don't see the whole picture,
A.S.A Harrison
#99. I wish I could tell you what happened, but I can't. Someday I will, but I can't right now and I need you to accept that. Please. And I'm not apologizing to you,because I don't want you to forget what happened and you should never forgive me for it. EVER. Never make excuses for me, Sky.
Colleen Hoover
#100. Most people define themselves by the excuses they make about why they cannot be who they want to be or do what they truly want to do.
Leigh Hershkovich
