Top 41 No Excuse For Failure Quotes
#2. A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.
Mike Piazza
#3. Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any social failure-so I can say "No, I don't go out for many extracurricular activities, but I spend a lot of time writing."
Sylvia Plath
#4. Failure is an excuse for losers to hide from life and the same failure is an energy booster for winners to transform their lives
Keerthi Singhe
#5. A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein
#6. Failure is a fuel for excuses.
Jet Li
#7. Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#8. Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.
Tony Abbott
#9. When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.
Robert Townsend
#10. You want an excuse for your failure and so you found someone to blame. If you survived, you would always be dirt, ground under someone else's boot.
Ilona Andrews
#11. Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.
Marshall Sylver
#12. Lots of folks have a hard life. It's an excuse for failure, not a reason. Life is what you make of it." These
Roger W. Buenger
#13. Bill did not believe in luck. Bad luck or good. Bill knew it was never a matter of luck, never a question of luck. Bill knew luck was just another excuse for failure.
David Peace
#14. We are all victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, knowing that if we fail it isn't really our fault, or we can say, 'I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and i'm going to try to make myself a life worth living.
Howard Dully
#15. Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice
George Bernard Shaw
#16. But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.
Lauren Oliver
#18. Failure is not an option, and I always felt like I'm a man who doesn't have regrets, and I don't live with excuses. I can't take excuses.
Nas
#19. Though events set up the defining moments which can evoke profiles in righteousness, outward commotions cannot excuse any failure of inward resolve, even if some seem to unravel so easily.
Neal A. Maxwell
#20. Your Crystal Clear vision should provide you a glimpse of a new universe and turn your excuse for failure into purposes for progress. The shallowness of your previous failures has become a deep well of resources for success.
Farshad Asl
#21. Lack of power is a great excuse for failure, but sufficient power is never a necessary condition of leadership. There is never sufficient power. In fact, it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.
Tom DeMarco
#22. For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
Eric Hoffer
#23. Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.
Israelmore Ayivor
#26. You're not who he expected you to be; that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.
Robin Hobb
#27. Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.
Ben Carson
#28. We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
#29. 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
#30. Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
William J. Clinton
#31. They will grow up knowing that they should be only proud about being adopted. I will consider it a parental failure if our daughters ever try to use it as some kind of excuse.
Scott Simon
#32. Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.
Jim Babka
#33. At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.
Albert Speer
#34. Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce
#35. Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to maintain attention and interest should be punishable by stoning. There is no excuse for tedium.
Jay H. Lehr
#36. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
Ned Vizzini
#37. You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.
Oprah Winfrey
#38. The past is not an excuse, it's a REASON
K.C. Rhoads
#39. The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is an excuse for failure, violent behavior, or indulgence in drugs.
Roland Merullo
#40. Everything happens for a reason. Failure is not an excuse to live in the past, to stay stuck in one place. Everyone has a chance to turn regret into a lesson. Turn lessons into growth. And be successful.
Nia Arthurs
#41. There is no excuse for your failure; accept it and try again.
M.F. Moonzajer
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