Top 100 Quotes About Excuses
#1. He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
Ann Brashares
#2. We all produce excuses and negative emotions involuntarily. Guess what? That's never going to change.
Anonymous
#3. We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.
Kyle Maynard
#4. 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
#5. Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Aldous Huxley
#6. To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero; panache is therefore a timid heroism, like the smile with which one excuses one's superiority.
Edmond Rostand
#7. Don't fall in love with your own excuses.
Brian Tracy
#8. 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
#9. The weak makes excuses, the strong makes changes.
Habeeb Akande
#10. If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.
Gordon Strachan
#12. 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
#13. But the truth was, we had failed, and rather than let anyone else know, we crafted careful excuses and alibis, and wrapped them around ourselves like a cloak to keep out the cold truth.
Eleanor Brown
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.
Stone Gossard
#18. Don't let yourself off the hook with excuses.
Jason Fried
#19. All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.
Colleen Hoover
#20. 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
#21. I'm not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games.
David Wells
#22. There are only two excuses you can use for missing rugby training - death and docking!
Alex Wyllie
#23. A lot of times on our show, 'Shadowhunters,' we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black leather attire under the excuse that we're going to fight demons, but it's all part of the tone of the piece and the tone of the story.
Katherine McNamara
#24. [The enemy] has filled His world full of pleasures ... Everything has to be twisted before it is any use to us. We fight under cruel disadvantages. Nothing is naturally on our side. (Not that that excuses you ... )
C.S. Lewis
#25. Children. For all of the times that you miss out on things you'd like to do because of them, there are an equal number of excuses they offer to get out of things you'd like to miss.
Bridget Asher
#26. You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
Arthur L. Williams Jr.
#27. America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.
David Chang
#28. The difference is that instead of turning the reality of your situation into an excuse, a "No Excuses" mindset turns it into a purpose that will propel your career and your life beyond its current state.
Farshad Asl
#29. The mind gives up a lot sooner than the body, making it tough to know if you're really in trouble or if you're just making excuses, calling it quits before you've reached your full potential.
Kara Richardson Whitely
#30. If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.
Rita Mae Brown
#31. 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
#32. Many people have reasons and excuses for inaction, not the reasons for actions; or they neglect them
Keerthi Singhe
#33. 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
#34. It's not the circumstances of your life that are preventing you from being happy; it's the excuses you're making not to be happy! Like attracts like, happiness attracts happiness, so just drop the excuses - drop every one of them - and be happy now!
Rhonda Byrne
#35. I'm really, really, really, really conservative with money. I got to give myself a lot of excuses to spend money, because I come from nothin'.
Joell Ortiz
#36. You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there as the geek. They like to watch me eat my shit. But it pays the light bill and takes me to the racetrack. I don't have any excuses about why I do it.
Charles Bukowski
#37. Like most of us, Joe Biden has had moments when he's led the league in mistakes or verbal gaffes. The difference is his were on a public stage where explanations are almost always made out by pundits to be excuses.
Mike Barnicle
#38. Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.
Chris Brogan
#39. 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
#40. This is certainly one of the best ways to ensure failure. Make excuses, don't take action!
Abhishek Ratna
#41. So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
Ben Carson
#42. Chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands, so why to look for excuses around.
Anonymous
#43. When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.
Barbara "Cutie" Cooper
#44. Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses
Brian Tracy
#45. 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
#46. It seems to me that it's actually harder to invent excuses than it is to get a sale.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#47. The truth: you have what you need. Watch out for excuses. Whenever you're tempted to whine about what you don't have, remember that God has given you everything you need to do everything He wants you to do.
Craig Groeschel
#48. Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?
Ingrid Weir
#49. 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
#50. If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these."
Epictetus
#51. I have never been a physically engaged person. Like, I was not an athletic kid. I was the kid who came up with a thousand excuses not to take a gym class. Even now, if I could, I would do all my work from bed.
Lena Dunham
#52. Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.
Marshall Sylver
#53. Hustle ... Your excuses are someone else's motivation.
Behdad Sami
#54. You can make excuses and you can make money, but you cannot make both.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#56. The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.
Albert Reynolds
#57. Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#58. Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
John Wooden
#59. I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.
Tony Abbott
#60. 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
#61. It was always a bad sign when better-off types drew comparisons between unsightly ghetto populations and some animal or other, most especially those species that we had, reluctantly, to poison periodically. Why didn't people keep their lame excuses to themselves? Mick
Alan Moore
#62. This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?
S.A. Tawks
#63. When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.
Ralph Marston
#64. 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
#65. When we hear these kinds of excuses from a drunk, we assume they are exactly that - excuses. We don't consider an active alcoholic a reliable source of insight. So why should we let an angry and controlling man be the authority on partner abuse?
Lundy Bancroft
#66. Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn't mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!
Israelmore Ayivor
#67. The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
Amit Abraham
#68. Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance.
Bryant McGill
#69. I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.
Louise Penny
#70. 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
#71. I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
Jimmy Carter
#72. When you don't feel healthy, stop the excuses and do something. Just go outside, walk, breathe. Life's too short to fall into a rut. You are in charge of you - treat yourself well, and it'll show.
Jessica Stroup
#73. No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.
Albert Camus
#74. Nothing is a violent as football and I bet you like. Just say you don't like it, or can't identify, don't come up with excuses like "It's too violent" while you wear some team's NFL jersey.
Michael Wilbon
#75. 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
#76. If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
Robert Breault
#77. She refuses to take the easy way out by accepting the get-out-of-jail-free card that I offered her. She refuses to be allowed mistakes and though I know she will still make them because she is human, she will learn faster from them than someone who chooses to accept the excuses.
J.A. Redmerski
#79. 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
#80. Stop making excuses and start making history.
A.D. Posey
#81. Laziness is when your sleep overcomes your passion, not under the influence of drugs but under the control of excuses and procrastination!
Israelmore Ayivor
#82. Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.
Dean Koontz
#83. Limited money and family obligations have never stopped a man who really wanted to do something, although they provide excuses for a man who is not really up to the creative challenge in the first place. Find out today whether you are willing to do what it takes.
David Deida
#84. 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
#85. It's time to change... it's time to start working on yourself.... improve yourself.... you don't have time for excuses.
Deyth Banger
#86. I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-"
Lily: "Slipped out? It's too late. I've made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You've chosen your way, I've chosen mine.
J.K. Rowling
#87. Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.
Nick Park
#88. You can't get to genius on a platform of excuses.
Robin Sharma
#89. Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge," Aomame said.
"Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire's budget deficits. It has no moral significance.
Haruki Murakami
#90. I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.
Tony Abbott
#92. Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.
Zig Ziglar
#93. What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears.
Mark Victor Hansen
#95. You'll never learn anything or impress anyone by making excuses and diverting blame.
Frank Sonnenberg
#96. This...is a new crutch to help you make excuses for your meaningless, impotent existence.
John Kennedy Toole
#97. 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
#98. 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
#100. Don't you hate when people are late to work. And they always have the worst excuses. "Oh, I'm sorry I'm late, traffic." "Traffic, huh? How do you think I got here; helicoptered in!?"
Ellen DeGeneres
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