Top 100 No Excuse Quotes
#1. 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
#2. A wonderful laugh is no excuse for villainous behavior!
Lemony Snicket
#3. Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.
Rick Santorum
#4. I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.
Kevin Hart
#5. People who say it takes money to make money are using the worst excuse ever ... Create massive value for others by providing a solution where no other exists.
Matt Mickiewicz
#6. Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.
Bertrand Russell
#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. Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must.
Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.
Philip Pullman
#10. Some people feel threatened by the concept that abuse is a solvable problem, because if it is, there's no excuse for not solving it.
Lundy Bancroft
#11. There are no excuses. There are no good reasons.
Eric Thomas
#12. So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.
Pliny The Younger
#13. The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.
Sarah Palin
#14. You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it?
Howie Carr
#15. Pay attention, people! There's no excuse for making the same mistakes that others have made. If you do, it's your own fault and you should expect no sympathy, no compassion.
Donald Trump
#16. Sometimes LIFE is rough and tough. That's still NO excuse for you to be.
Tanya Masse
#17. I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.
David Levithan
#18. I quirked a brow at him. "No kids for me. Would you really bring children into a world like this?"
Eyes alight with playfulness, he said, "No. It was just an excuse to get in your pants.
Kresley Cole
#19. Now that we have the line-item veto there is no excuse for Congress to put pork in and no reason for the president not to line-item veto it out.
John McCain
#20. You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. Nobody wants to die!
So why do people let themselves go?
Why kill yourself off?
Stop and think, get fit and strong!
Even a good shag will burn the calories off and pump your heart!
There is no excuse - you know it!
Charles Bronson
#22. I think it is important that independent government agencies be put in charge of investigating misconduct so that police departments are no longer allowed to police themselves. There is a conflict of interest there which, I believe, allows police to excuse their own behavior.
Bernie Sanders
#23. Your colleague, Captain Grimes, has been convicted before me on evidence that leaves no possibility of his innocence - of a crime (I might almost call it a course of action) which I can neither understand nor excuse. I dare say I need not particularise.
Evelyn Waugh
#24. Being cursed with human hands is no excuse for clumsiness!
Greg Rucka
#25. Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
Sinclair Lewis
#26. There's no excuse for giving up just because it looks like we're going to lose. We have to try - because the other choice is to surrender.
L.J.Smith
#28. Even if you were taken out of school for want of money, Hugh. It's no excuse for false values. The world is full of poor people who understand that love and friendship are more important than riches - Maisie Greenbourne
Ken Follett
#29. You just like me because I'm safe. There's no risk. And then you never have to try to have a real relationship, because you can use me as an excuse.
Cassandra Clare
#30. I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering "excuse me" the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless has made me noticable.
Veronica Roth
#31. He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.
Brandon Sanderson
#33. There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.
C.P. Snow
#34. My writing is riddled with such tics of uncertainty. I have no excuse or solution, save to allow myself the tremblings, then go back in later and slash them out. In this way I edit myself into a boldness that is neither native nor foreign to me.
Maggie Nelson
#35. I know real cops. When they're paired up together, they get so close, you know? There's no excuse for it, but these guys do have a connection. They fight like cats and dogs, but when they get in a really messed-up situation, they're there for each other.
Kenny Johnson
#36. Let's stop blaming our unbelief on the pastor we once had, on our childhood, on circumstances, or on anything else. There is no excuse for us not to believe in the Lord.
Jim Cymbala
#37. There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
Viggo Mortensen
#38. I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time.
Tom Lehrer
#39. Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.
Thomas Hobbes
#40. The Bible says all men are without excuse. Even those who are given no good reason to believe and many persuasive reasons to disbelieve have no excuse, because the ultimate reason they do not believe is that they have deliberately rejected God's Holy Spirit.
William Lane Craig
#41. We try to do a little better than the previous generation and find out in the end we've made the same mistakes without intending. Instead of striving to love as God first loved us, we let past hurts and grievances rule. Ignorance is no excuse.
Francine Rivers
#42. There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
John Bolton
#43. We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. 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
#45. Some think, excuse me if I use the word, that in order to be good Catholics, we have to be like rabbits - but no.
Pope Francis
#46. From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.
Jurgen Habermas
#47. The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
John Le Carre
#48. But my dad said it was no excuse.
"But I love him!" I had never seen my sister cry that much.
"No, you don't."
"I hate you!"
"No, you don't." My dad can be very calm sometimes.
"He's my whole world."
"Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me." That was my mom.
Stephen Chbosky
#49. I'm going to need to save you."
"Excuse me? No one needs-"
"I'm saving you, so shut up and be grateful.
Kelley Armstrong
#50. 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
#51. Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.
Edward Law, 1st Earl Of Ellenborough
#52. I mean, I know thousands of people died and everything, but if it happened today, there's just no excuse. They'd be much safer inside a movie theater watching one of my movies instead of burning alive in a collapsing skyscraper.
Zach Braff
#53. 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
#55. 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
#56. There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were
Nina Simone
#57. Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin is no amusing toy - it is a terror to be shunned! Learn, then, what constitutes sin in the eyes of God!
Billy Graham
#58. Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.
Anthony Burgess
#59. Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.
Aneurin Bevan
#60. The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative
Milton Friedman
#61. Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#62. The world is hard because you may wake up today but not tomorrow. And yet no one will accept "fear of death and a futile existence" as a reasonable excuse to miss work.
The world is hard because you will have to fight for the things you love or worse, fight the things you love.
Iain Thomas
#63. You don't need to think deeply before reaching out to the excuses to give. Just lose interest in it and you gain excuses at no cost!
Israelmore Ayivor
#64. In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells
#65. There is no fate ... no predestination ... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.
Ingrid Weir
#66. There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.
John Prescott
#67. What's beyond logic happens beneath will;
nor can these moments be translated: i say
that even after April
by God there is no excuse for May
E. E. Cummings
#68. If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.
Leonard Ravenhill
#69. Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
Samuel E. Morison
#70. Take off your coat."
"Excuse me?"
"Take it off."
"No."
"I want it off."
"Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane]
J.R. Ward
#71. I had to make water " I said. It was the classic female excuse and no male in recorded history had ever questioned it.
"I see " the Inspector said and left it at that.
Later I would have a quick piddle behind the caravan for insurance purposes. No one would be any the wiser.
Alan Bradley
#72. Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller
#73. I'm not a rookie anymore-no more excuses about being young.
Adrian Beltre
#74. An admitted insensibility or immorality simplifies life as much as does easy virtue; it converts reproachable actions, for which one no longer need seek any excuse, into a duty imposed by sincerity.
Marcel Proust
#75. Well, I don't know, yet," the dragonet said, "but I mean to find a way: just because the business will be difficult is no excuse for not making the attempt.
Naomi Novik
#76. Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.
Stephen Schwartz
#77. ENOUGH!" bellows Zeus and not only stops Ares diatribe , but freezes every god and robot in place. "I'll hear no more whining prattle from you, Ares, you lying, two-faced, treacherous sparrowfart, you miserable excuse for a man, much less for a god.
Dan Simmons
#78. KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the company, we're trying a more personal approach.
Bruce Friedrich
#79. The fact that I ever raised my hand against a woman disgusts me. It was a f**king atrocious, unforgivable way to behave, and there's no excuse for it, ever. And like I said before, it's something I'll take to the grave with me.
Ozzy Osbourne
#80. No matter what, the Earth is fucked," Rigney said. "Excuse the language, but that's the gist of what I'm hearing from you.
John Scalzi
#81. You have no excuse to give ... Jonah prayed fervently even in the belly of the shark! Environment is not a barrier!
Israelmore Ayivor
#82. Sometimes, you can hurt another person by being true to yourself, but in the longterm you are doing both of you a favour. You can also hurt them by just being a selfish bitch and there is no excuse for that. Sometimes it is quite difficult to tell the two situations apart.
Kate Kerrigan
#83. Never make an excuse for being yourself, no one's going to do it better.
Ron Baratono
#85. without purpose your sharp perceptions and subtle noticings are just an excuse to swim around inside your own head like a goldfish whilst the real world rages on about you. You're all vision and no purpose, in a world that demands we constantly ready ourselves not to bark, but to bite.
Troy Blackford
#86. Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid.
Ozzy Osbourne
#87. There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
Flannery O'Connor
#88. I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.
Caleb Carr
#89. Firefly: Where is your husband? Mrs. Teasdale: Why, he's dead. Firefly: I'll bet he's just using that as an excuse. Mrs. Teasdale: I was with him to the very end. Firefly: Hmmph. No wonder he passed away. Mrs. Teasdale: I held him in my arms and kissed him. Firefly: Oh I see. Then, it was murder.
Groucho Marx
#90. There is no excuse not to give two minutes today to intend your tomorrow.
Rhonda Byrne
#91. [Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.
Margaret Cho
#92. The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
George Carlin
#93. Today, there is no excuse for any one of us to sit back and go, "Ugh! There's nothing I can do about it."Because there is always something that can be done.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#94. I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.
Rigoberta Menchu
#95. 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
#96. Shakespeare knows that the tension between men as they are and men as they ought to be will forever remain unresolved. Man's imperfectability is no more an excuse for total permissiveness, however, than are man's imperfections a reason for inflexible intolerance.
Theodore Dalrymple
#99. When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.
Condoleezza Rice
#100. (The baby sneezed. Wulf jumped as fire shot out of its nostrils and almost singed his leg.)
Excuse me. I almost made Dark-Hunter barbecue, which would be really sad 'cause I ain't got no barbecue sauce with me. (Simi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
