Top 60 Quotes About Excuse Making
#1. One very difficult aspect of sin is that my sin never feels like sin to me. My sin feels like life to me, plain and simple. My heart is an idol factory, and my mind is an excuse-making factory.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#2. Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.
Ann Brashares
#3. Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.
Jack Canfield
#4. Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel ... for without it, the edifice of an industry built upon grievance and excuse-making is destined to collapse.
Ilana Mercer
#5. I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it differently, to perform it differently, to establish the music's difference, vis-a-vis our own difference.
Glenn Gould
#6. Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.
Jay Samit
#7. Don't do that thing of making it an excuse to do less, do more
Nina Stibbe
#8. Success for open source is when the term 'open source' becomes a non-factor in the decision making process, when people hear about Linux and compare it to Windows NT, and they compare it on the feature set and don't have much of an excuse not to use it.
Brian Behlendorf
#9. Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
John C. Maxwell
#10. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
#14. Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
Vince Lombardi
#15. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go out and greet those wonderful creatures and say a few nice words in a language invented by Tolkein. I've practiced, but I sound like Chewbacca making a New Year's speech.
Nina George
#16. Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!
Tyrese Gibson
#18. SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.
Terry Pratchett
#19. Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#20. If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.
Jeff Wall
#21. Bottom line, when someone defensively says their way of writing is their style, then that usually means they're making an excuse for poor prose.
A.J. Flowers
#22. If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.
Evan Esar
#23. Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.
Wayne Dyer
#24. Time has a way of making me realize that we can either lay the blamer our problems on someone else, letting that be an excuse for why our life isn't turning out the way we want it, or we can take the blame upon ourselves and let the responsibility for any change that should happen be on us.
Rory Feek
#25. I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.
Tony Abbott
#26. It is easy to make excuses when we ought to be making opportunities.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#27. Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect it. And that's happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in this country devoted to making Americans think there's an enemy within.
Reza Aslan
#28. Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.
Ali Vincent
#29. Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?
Eva Figes
#30. We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.
Russell E. Train
#31. When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.
John Landis Mason
#32. I search for love frantically... and quitting at the last moment by making excuse for myself that I've tried
Acha Salim
#33. You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses
Bill Gates
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Not knowing the answer to a question is not a valid excuse for making up a fairytale to explain it.
Armin Navabi
#38. Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right?
Donna Lynn Hope
#39. Making excuses and not trying because I was scared were my go-to reactions. Nothing was going to change in my life unless I did something about it.
Erin Willett
#40. I really enjoy making breakfast and dinner. But breakfast is a good excuse to have some dessert before dinner.
Tia Mowry
#41. [My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.
Kate Seredy
#42. One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing.
Eli Roth
#43. Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
Bernd Heinrich
#44. You can make money or you can make excuses. Your choice.
John Addison
#45. When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful.
DJ Khaled
#46. Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.
Joyce Meyer
#47. The people who come to work deserve to be paid properly, and there's no excuse. I could understand someone making a small error, but sometimes people make systematic errors, and that's not right.
Fred DeLuca
#48. If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half of the world, but yet not a full one. For even this would be such an economy as the living on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest.
Laurence Sterne
#49. [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
#50. I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn't get the life you wanted.
Grant Cardone
#51. 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
#52. Because it gives him and excuse to be around her
without making it look like he gave in first. That way, he can still seem manly."
"That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.
"Guys do ridiculous things for love.
Richelle Mead
#53. A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman
a married man needs only an excuse.
Helen Rowland
#54. Making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
Oscar Wilde
#55. 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
#56. A washing machine repairman dying of laryngeal cancer had only one recurring thought: There is no excuse for making an angel cry.
Tade Thompson
#57. If you are not concerned about what you do, you will not say so. When you sit, you will sit. When you eat, you will eat. That is all. If you say, "It doesn't matter," it means that you are making some excuse to do something in your own way with your small mind.
Shunryu Suzuki
#58. He took a sip of my father's weak coffee and spit it back into the mug. "This shit's like making love in a canoe."
"Excuse me?"
"It's fucking near water.
David Sedaris
#59. If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.
Jim Thompson
#60. When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus.
Shannon L. Alder
