Top 100 Quotes About Making Excuses
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it.
Gary Cox
#5. We will never accomplish what God wants for our lives unless we stop making excuses for ourselves and pampering our flesh. When we get into seemingly impossible situations, we have to remember - it's not about us.
Monica Johnson
#6. 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
#7. What if you quit making excuses, quit playing it safe, and quit hedging your bets?
Mark Batterson
#8. He who is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
#9. (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
#10. Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.
Haruki Murakami
#11. Stop making excuses of why you can't or how hard it is and start making your life matter.
John Patrick Hickey
#12. Stop making excuses for why you can't let yourself have this. It's not conventional but that doesn't mean it isn't real. What's more important? Loving the man that loves you, or trying to achieve this bullshit idea you have of what a perfect relationship is supposed to be?
Stacey Wallace Benefiel
#13. People only see what they want to see, and they only do whatever they want to do. You can make excuses for them all you like, but you'll always be making excuses for them,
Jade West
#14. Frank," Belinda sounded more drained than angry. "When are you going to stop making excuses for him?" "He had a bad day at practice yesterday," Hildy went on as if she hadn't heard. "He's always weird when he's been bad at practice.
Richie Tankersley Cusick
#15. Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
Bernd Heinrich
#16. There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
Veronica Roth
#17. When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful.
DJ Khaled
#18. When you stop making excuses, you start making progress!
Lasean Rinique
#19. Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.
Joyce Meyer
#20. Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
Mitt Romney
#21. [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
#22. The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.
Larry Constantine
#23. 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
#24. It's amazing how our brains can create all kinds of ways of avoiding the truth. Especially when there's something you just don't want to face about yourself, or someone you love. We never get tired of running from ourselves. Never get tired of making excuses.
Jeff Lemire
#25. Stop making excuses for people treating you like shit. Demand respect and you'll get it.
S. Usher Evans
#26. Most come up with New Year Resolutions...
Others are busy making Excuses...
A few are following through with Execution...
Design your New Year Intentionally.
Farshad Asl
#27. We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
David Frum
#28. As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.
Michael Gove
#29. You need to stop making excuses for your mistakes, as long as you are complaining about what you did wrong you will never get started on doing it right
Carlton Young
#30. I don't think I really accepted my power as a woman until I realized that no was a complete sentence. When I stopped making excuses for saying it and began creating boundaries in my life, I knew real power.
Leeza Gibbons
#31. I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a 'blue chip' Irish banking sector.
Sean Quinn
#32. Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.
Jay Samit
#33. The pathway to freedom begins when we face the problem without making excuses for it.
Joyce Meyer
#34. Making excuses as to why you cannot do something based on what you don't have, or what hasn't happened yet, only serves to hold you back even further. WAIT FOR NOTHING & NO-ONE.
Miya Yamanouchi
#35. We all are manufacturers in a way - making good, making trouble or making excuses.
H. V. Adolt
#36. We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.
Tony Abbott
#37. I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
#38. 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
#39. What if i fail?" ... the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear.
David Meerman Scott
#40. 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
#41. Every night I went to bed promising myself I would tell him
goodbye in the morning and leave. But along with the mornings
always came new reasons to delay that, new places to see. I knew I
was only making excuses for myself, but there was no one to
reproach me, so I figured it was OK.
Danka V.
#42. Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
John C. Maxwell
#44. It sounds to me like you're making excuses," Jeb said quietly. "You're trying to convince yourself, and you're using me to listen to yourself talk.
Nicholas Sparks
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. You'll never learn anything or impress anyone by making excuses and diverting blame.
Frank Sonnenberg
#52. Stop making excuses and start making history.
A.D. Posey
#53. I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.
Tony Abbott
#54. Another way people with the fixed mindset try to repair their self-esteem after a failure is by assigning blame or making excuses.
Carol S. Dweck
#55. Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you want your life to work at a level you've never had before, then take responsibility for it.
Wayne Dyer
#56. Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
Alexander Pope
#57. Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.
Bill Dixon
#58. When you work for somebody who is very technical, and understands and has creative solutions to your problems, it spurs you along and stops you making excuses for things. And I found that very useful.
David Perry
#59. Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.
Ali Vincent
#60. One moment you see that you aren't so Original... people leave you... people start ignoring you... people start making excuses.
Deyth Banger
#61. I shook my head. "Don't bother making excuses," I said. "Don't waste your time because, the fact is, I am the Duff. But so is everyone else in the world. We're all fucking Duffs."
"I'm not the Duff," Wesley said confidently.
"That's because you don't have friends."
"Oh. Right.
Kody Keplinger
#62. Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
#63. When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.
Epictetus
#64. Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.
Jeffrey Fry
#65. Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes.
Roy Bennett
#66. When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.
John Landis Mason
#67. If I'd known things would end this way, we could have gone and done all that stuff instead of making excuses about my job, about how your mother couldn't spare the time,
Banana Yoshimoto
#68. People keep making excuses, that's why everthing happens for a reason.
Roy Saputra
#69. First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#70. You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you.
Kiersten White
#72. The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.
Michael Bloomberg
#73. If you're making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person.
Marina And The Diamonds
#74. Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.
Michael Scott
#75. Martha Quest, who thought of herself as so adventurous, so free and unbounded - the fact was, even the idea of picking up a telephone and making herself known to a new person troubled her: she made excuses, she could not do it.
Doris Lessing
#76. You can make money or you can make excuses. Your choice.
John Addison
#77. The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
O.J. Simpson
#78. You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses
Bill Gates
#79. A powerful wind swept through the shtetl, making it whistle. Those studying obscure texts in dimly lit rooms looked up. Lovers making amends and promises, amendments and excuses, fell silent.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#80. 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
#81. For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.
John Le Carre
#82. There are those dreamers who make excuses for why they aren't passionate about or creating anything to match their desires and then there's those dreamers who stay up late just to finish a goal that will get them up the next set of stairs. We all have dreams but not everyone makes it a reality.
Nikki Rowe
#84. Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!
Grant Cardone
#85. Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
David E. Kelley
#87. Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!
Tyrese Gibson
#88. 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
#89. Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque ... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this.
Jerry Saltz
#90. 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
#91. I'm not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games.
David Wells
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.
Evan Esar
#95. It is easy to make excuses when we ought to be making opportunities.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#96. When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.
Wayne W. Dyer
#97. 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
#98. You have more potential in you than you can possibly use up in an entire lifetime or even in several lifetimes. Stop making up excuses and believing in limits.
David Cameron Gikandi
#99. I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior we would just say, "I was an asshole. Sure, there were reasons behind it, but that doesn't matter.
Colin Quinn
#100. Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?
Charles R. Swindoll
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