Top 100 Make Excuses Quotes
#1. The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
Tony Abbott
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. It was easier to make excuses, to look for reasons and flaws, than to just admit the simple truth.
Romina Russell
#7. 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
#8. Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.
John Wooden
#9. Tell the President to stand up to our enemies, not cower to them or make excuses for them!
Jim Gilmore
#10. 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
#11. If all you do is make excuses, then that is how people see you. Make your strengths visible.
Marla Runyan
#12. 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
#13. I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.
Peter Storey
#15. 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
#16. Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.
Amy Chua
#17. 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
#19. You can make money or you can make excuses. Your choice.
John Addison
#20. 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
#21. Don't make excuses, don't blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!
Joel Osteen
#22. Males will always make excuses for the pretty.
G.A. Aiken
#23. 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
#24. Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.
Joyce Meyer
#25. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
Brian Tracy
#26. You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses
Bill Gates
#27. If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
Hanif Kureishi
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the
lights may have been a problem ...
Kevin Keegan
#31. 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
#32. Leaders don't make excuses. They create results
Robin Sharma
#33. It is easier to make excuses about our circumstances than actually do anything about them.
Jeffrey Fry
#34. [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
#37. 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
#38. When you've been hurt, you don't make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That's his mama's job.
Catherine Anderson
#39. 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
#40. When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.
Derek Jeter
#41. 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
#42. Don't make excuses - make improvements!
Tyra Banks
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. Work hard and never make excuses.
Master P
#47. Make excuses to train not excuses not to train!
Brock Larson
#48. God my Creator said, 'Go and make disciples.' So I don't want to sit and make excuses.
Francis Chan
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.
Robin Sharma
#53. You can make EXCUSES and earn SYMPATHY,
OR
You can make MONEY and earn ADMIRATION.
The choice is always yours ...
Manoj Arora
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#60. Yes I make mistakes that I don't ever make excuses for
Drake
#62. For the things we want to do, we make time. For the things we don't want to do, we make excuses.
Jennifer Dahl
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.
John Hagee
#69. If you want to make money, you can't afford to make excuses
Seth Czerepak
#70. You don't have to make excuses for God.
Dan Davis
#71. Wang-mu was surprised to hear Peter sound so oriental. The American way was to make excuses, to stay and argue.
Orson Scott Card
#73. Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses
Francis Chan
#74. 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
#75. If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.
Roddy Doyle
#77. 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
#78. Don't make excuses for why you can't get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.
Ralph Marston
#79. 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
#80. Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.
John Travolta
#81. Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.
Germany Kent
#82. It's so free to know that I do not have to compensate or make excuses for being treated poorly in relationships. I can simply move forward knowing I deserve better
Renae A. Sauter
#83. It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#84. I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.
Chris Lowe
#86. 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
#87. I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.
Jim Rohn
#88. 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
#89. My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.
Beyonce Knowles
#90. Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.
Matt Kemp
#91. This is certainly one of the best ways to ensure failure. Make excuses, don't take action!
Abhishek Ratna
#92. As soon as a man begins to make excuses, the time has come when he might be doing that from which he excuses himself.
George MacDonald
#93. You can make excuses and you can make money, but you cannot make both.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#94. This...is a new crutch to help you make excuses for your meaningless, impotent existence.
John Kennedy Toole
#95. If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.
Evan Esar
#96. Make excuses to work out. Go for walks and enjoy scenery. You'd be surprised how many calories you can burn during the day if you just make an effort and become more aware. Also remember to start slow, don't go into it too hard if you are just starting.
Miesha Tate
#97. I don't make excuses, so don't make excuses for me. When I'm being an ass, it's because I have one.
Donna Lynn Hope
#98. 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
#99. If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
Robert Breault
#100. If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.
Natalie Morales
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