Top 82 You Can Make Excuses Quotes
#1. 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
#2. You can make money or you can make excuses. Your choice.
John Addison
#3. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
Brian Tracy
#4. You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses
Bill Gates
#5. You can make EXCUSES and earn SYMPATHY,
OR
You can make MONEY and earn ADMIRATION.
The choice is always yours ...
Manoj Arora
#6. You can make excuses and you can make money, but you cannot make both.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#7. Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses.
Mia Love
#9. Never make an excuse for being yourself, no one's going to do it better.
Ron Baratono
#10. I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.
Bernie Siegel
#11. 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
#12. She thanked me for not trying to make what I did seem less by offering a lot of excuses.
Stephen Chbosky
#13. Excuses satisfy no one and apologies make everyone uncomfortable
Robert Greene
#14. We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
Margaret Fuller
#15. Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.
Jaleigh Johnson
#16. You slipped for the same reason any alcoholic does. You wanted to drink. It seemed like the only option to make it through whatever moment you found yourself in. All the context around the decision is, for all intents and purposes, excuses.
Leta Blake
#17. People can't handle guilt. Their minds won't let them for very long. So they make up excuses. Excuses work like a salve, allaying the guilt, letting you forget the real problem.
Darynda Jones
#18. Leaders don't make excuses. They create results
Robin Sharma
#19. Look for excuses to celebrate others, and life will find a way to celebrate you.
Make your life a prayer and be the light that touches lives far, wide and beyond.
Pooja Ruprell
#20. I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.
David Wells
#21. When you've been hurt, you don't make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That's his mama's job.
Catherine Anderson
#22. I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
Ace Frehley
#25. [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
#26. It is easier to make excuses about our circumstances than actually do anything about them.
Jeffrey Fry
#27. 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
#28. Don't make excuses for why you can't get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.
Ralph Marston
#29. A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.
Michael Jordan
#30. Each day you're presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses, or you can let it out. So the best way to begin unlocking inner greatness is to make a conscious choice to live out the rest of today, with the best you.
Lewis Howes
#31. Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.
Herschel Walker
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. If fear is holding you back in life, you must attack it, Kate. Not make excuses about why you cannot attempt what you wish to do. That you can't because you're a woman. Especially you, given that your parents educated you as a son.
Gaelen Foley
#35. 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
#36. You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.
Larry Bird
#37. Make no excuses for the devils that will not excuse you of their burdens, Miss Crane. - Darien Nicodemeus; Chapter Sixteen - The Giant's Return
S.C. Parris
#38. If you want to make money, you can't afford to make excuses
Seth Czerepak
#39. I wish I could tell you what happened, but I can't. Someday I will, but I can't right now and I need you to accept that. Please. And I'm not apologizing to you,because I don't want you to forget what happened and you should never forgive me for it. EVER. Never make excuses for me, Sky.
Colleen Hoover
#40. If you want it, you can have it, Imogen. Don't make excuses because you're scared, he remarked harshly, almost angrily.
A Meredith Walters
#41. Don't make excuses for your mistakes.
Don't try to please your enemies.
Don't run from your responsibilities.
Don't force your opinions on others.
Don't complain about things you can change.
Don't compare yourself to anyone.
Don't let undeserving people into your life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#42. In art it is not often possible to make direct use of your dreams of tomorrow and your excuses for yesterday.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#43. People make excuses [for not wanting to fight me]. It has a lot to do with my style. I'm a crafty fighter but I can also punch.
Erislandy Lara
#44. When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.
Derek Jeter
#45. When you heart knows it doesn't belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue.
Shannon L. Alder
#46. We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.
Nelson Mandela
#47. If all you do is make excuses, then that is how people see you. Make your strengths visible.
Marla Runyan
#48. You must be willing to take whatever pieces of life come your way and arrange them so that they work with and for you rather than against you. The key is to be willing. The willingness to arrange rather than complain or make excuses will pay off.
Wayne Dyer
#49. I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.
Julia Child
#50. Tell the President to stand up to our enemies, not cower to them or make excuses for them!
Jim Gilmore
#51. Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.
John Wooden
#52. 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
#53. 10 Keys To Success:
Focus
Perseverance
Ability to adapt
Diplomacy
Flexibility
Open to change
Make no excuses
Complain little
Personal responsibility
Faith
Charles F. Glassman
#54. And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
Octavia Butler
#55. It was easier to make excuses, to look for reasons and flaws, than to just admit the simple truth.
Romina Russell
#56. 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
#57. No one will ever blame you for trying to get it right.
Lorii Myers
#58. 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
#59. If a man must make excuses for himself, continually argue with himself that he is a man, then he is better off dead.
Elmore Leonard
#60. Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off.
George Osborne
#61. There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.
Rico Love
#62. We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.
John Madden
#64. The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
Tony Abbott
#65. She was an original ... She was an eccentric. She'd come alive like a fire, telling funny stories and entertaining everyone, then she'd suddenly run out of fuel, make her excuses and leave. You always knew when she'd had enough. Those that didn't would find themselves talk to the walls.
Santa Montefiore
#66. I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the
lights may have been a problem ...
Kevin Keegan
#67. When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.
Vince Lombardi
#68. So what if you hurt him? He'll hurt you. You'll hurt each other. That's what love is about, right? You can't know what'll happen till you actually try it. Don't try to make excuses like you're protecting him.
Michelle Painchaud
#69. If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
Hanif Kureishi
#70. Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Mason Cooley
#71. Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.
Joyce Meyer
#72. You're scared of the way I make you feel because you don't want to feel anything. Man up and tell me you don't want me, but don't make excuses.
Maya Banks
#73. Males will always make excuses for the pretty.
G.A. Aiken
#74. Don't make excuses for me. I was an ass. I'm still an ass. I broke up with you, and you deserve better.
Sara Daniel
#75. Don't make excuses, don't blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!
Joel Osteen
#76. That was magic for you, right? The thing about magic, the real kind: it didn't make excuses, and it was never funny.
Lev Grossman
#77. God. I haven't been very good.
The metal whined in protest.
I could have tried harder. I could've been a better person. I stand before you now as I am. I make no excuses.
The beams gave, bending.
Please, have mercy on me,
Ilona Andrews
#79. When the rains make your feathers wet, don't sit and cry and don't wait for your wet feathers to get dry before you start to fly; start flying and your wet feathers will start drying!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#80. Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.
Amy Chua
#81. I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't expect an artist to give me credit. I know that they're gonna take the credit for everything. But, it's my job to give myself that exposure and not make excuses, not grow bitter.
Rico Love
#82. I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.
Peter Storey
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