Top 62 No Time Excuses Quotes
#1. 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
#2. And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.
Robin S
#3. Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure
Dean Cavanagh
#4. Anyone can find an excuse. It takes a special person to find the time
Linda Poindexter
#5. The main factors that sponsor the abuse of time include procrastination and excuses. Procrastination makes you to shift a task that you can do now into the unseen future; excuses are the reasons why you shift that task.
Israelmore Ayivor
#6. I have been thinking about the idea of excuses for some time now. They are like menacing demons that creep into our lives without us knowing. They are roadblocks, white lies to ourselves, a reason to set the bar lower, and self-justification for achieving less than our full potential.
Lorii Myers
#7. Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time. She has more excuses than dogs have hairs. She must just simply dive in and stand not knowing what will happen next.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#8. It is time to stop making excuses. We need an enriched approach to doing economic research, one that acknowledges the existence and relevance of Humans.
Richard H. Thaler
#9. Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action!
Steve Maraboli
#10. 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
#11. You clutch your comfortable excuses, saying, Someday I'll be brave, it won't take a lot, just give me one more chance and this time I'll grab it.
James Alan Gardner
#12. One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.
Andrew Davies
#13. When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary, but holding on to your old stories is just another way of wasting precious time.
James Arthur Ray
#14. I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.
Tahar Rahim
#15. I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that I'm making excuses. I was always out and about and had a good time as a kid, so I've done alright.
Danny Dyer
#16. By the time we have our fifth and sixth you'll be a pro." Kane teased. He nuzzled Sebastien head. " Do you hear that, son ? You're our experiment, so you'll have all sorts of excuses to do very naughty things.
Christine Feehan
#17. She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.
Jay Asher
#18. 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
#20. I come up with the silliest excuses when it's time to work out. I'll be like, 'Oh no! Now I have to go and find some socks.'
Christina Hendricks
#21. It's time to change... it's time to start working on yourself.... improve yourself.... you don't have time for excuses.
Deyth Banger
#22. 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
#23. I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.
Johan Santana
#24. There are no excuses this time. Now it's up to women to step up and lead ourselves and our sisters through the threshold.
Gloria Feldt
#25. I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.
Tony Abbott
#26. When people say they're too busy, ask them If they'll have time to die, and see If dead's gonna give a damn.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#27. These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.
Joe Henderson
#28. It's really, really easy to make excuses as to why we can't go to the gym. If you can find time to sit in front of the TV for 45 minutes, you can find time to work out.
Jill Wagner
#29. There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine
Pushpa Rana
#30. Don't be lazy. Hard work brings happiness. There is no other time to avoid being a lazy. Take that decision now. Kick laziness out.
Israelmore Ayivor
#31. Never ever continue to complain of lack of time all the time for no one is in possession of all the time.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#32. Well, Michael, we will be telling the people of Australia in good time before the next election exactly what they can expect from us. No surprises, no excuses. They will be our watch words going into the election and afterwards, should we form a government.
Tony Abbott
#34. Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.
Bo Bennett
#35. I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.
Tony Abbott
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
Patrick Ness
#39. 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
#40. Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.
Michael Scott
#41. (The Song Remains The Same) is not a great film, but there's no point in making excuses. It's just a reasonably honest statement of where we were at that particular time. It's very difficult for me to watch it now, but I'd like to see it in a year's time just to see how it stands up.
Jimmy Page
#42. We made love like a half a minute. I brought the thirty seconds, and she provided the excuse as to why she didn't have enough time to have sex with me.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#43. Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#44. Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1% ... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process.
Bernie Sanders
#45. I always wanted to get out of L.A., but time passes, and you find excuses to stay.
Robin Wright
#47. Prioritise self-care & incorporate a MINIMUM of 60 mins 'ME TIME' into your daily routine.
YES THERE ARE enough hours in the day.
NO EXCUSES.
Miya Yamanouchi
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.
Lesli Linka Glatter
#52. 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
#53. It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
John Updike
#54. This is the day the Lord himself has made! Do something on it before it begins to fade! Do something you have said! Do it before it's time for bed!
Israelmore Ayivor
#55. That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.
Nenia Campbell
#56. When you're young, you can excuse many things, hoping they will strengthen with time.
Gail Tsukiyama
#57. This is about me being ready to succeed.
When I win in my mind, I truly win.
Anything worthwhile deserves some time.
I will do it this time! No excuses!
Lorii Myers
#58. For the things we want to do, we make time. For the things we don't want to do, we make excuses.
Jennifer Dahl
#59. 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
#60. Writer's Disease: About ninety per cent of your time is wasted on totally pointless and distracting activity, and only about ten per cent is actually spent dreaming up and composing and shaping and honing all those wonderful, exciting, soul-stirring excuses for not having got anything written.
Jem Roberts
#61. Of course, that rationalization didn't work at all. It would have helped if I'd had some Oreo cookie ice cream to eat that the same time. I've learned that self-delusion is much easier when there's something sweet in your mouth.
Lee Goldberg
#62. In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can't be done. People who live with excuses have things that can't be done hovering around them all the time.
Mike Krzyzewski
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