Browsing Topic Best Excuse Quotes

Please find below a curated list of 1,458 of The Best Excuse Quotes by notable women and men. Please consider sharing with others any of the Excuse Quotes that resonate.

If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don’t blame others or make excuses for yourself.

Topic(s): Excuse , Decision , Responsibility

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

Topic(s): Excuse , Hard , Motivational

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

Topic(s): Excuse , World , May

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

Topic(s): Excuse , Stills , Asks

A leader can’t make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

Topic(s): Excuse , Quality , Leader

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

Topic(s): Excuse , Waste , Wasting Time

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

Topic(s): Excuse , Black , Racism

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

Topic(s): Excuse , Inspirational , Life

Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.

Topic(s): Excuse , Inspirational , Motivational

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

Topic(s): Excuse , Persons , Challenges

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Topic(s): Excuse , People , Inspirational

I think people use fame as an excuse to lose their faith. Faith is obviously my number one priority and I think you need to put God at the top of everything you do.

Topic(s): Excuse , People , Thinking

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Topic(s): Excuse , Reality , Poor

The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

Topic(s): Excuse , Looks , Wisdom

Don’t make excuses, make good.

Topic(s): Excuse , Sports , Commitment

Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group before you look out for yourself. Don’t whine or make excuses. Judge others by their actions and not by their race or other characteristics.

Topic(s): Excuse , Looks , Character

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Topic(s): Excuse , Men , Giving

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Topic(s): Excuse , Opportunity , Humor

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Topic(s): Excuse , Reality , Process

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

Topic(s): Excuse , Problem , Tired

The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there’s no excuse for that. That’s not a statement. That’s not politics. That’s not activism. That’s just criminal behavior.

Topic(s): Excuse , Kind , Individual

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself – a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

Topic(s): Excuse , Self , Past

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.

Topic(s): Excuse , People , Giving

The most embarrassing one is that I had no idea – and please excuse me – that you guys call a condom a rubber. My version of a rubber is an eraser. I’ve done that – very loudly asked for a rubber and people have given me strange looks. That was embarrassing!

Topic(s): Excuse , People , Looks

Start making excuses and there’s no end to it. I can’t live that kind of life.

Topic(s): Excuse , Kind , Ends

When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful.

Topic(s): Excuse , Hard , Successful

Religion isn’t the cause of wars, it’s the excuse.

Topic(s): Excuse , War , Causes

Buy ammunition! Remember that a man cannot have too many books, too many wines, or too much ammunition. Our adversaries on the other side are reaching for the excuse of lead poisoning. If they can push that idea through, you may wind up still owning your guns but without anything to shoot in them.

Topic(s): Excuse , Ifs , Men

Don’t let where you are be an excuse not to grow.

Topic(s): Excuse , Grows , Advice

‘If only’ is the excuse of the loser; ‘I can’ is the affirmation of the winner.

Topic(s): Excuse , Ifs , I Can

If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.

Topic(s): Excuse , Atheism , Dying

Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.