Browsing Topic Best Excuse Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

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

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

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

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.

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

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

When you’re good at making excuses, it’s hard to excel at anything else.

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

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

Don’t make excuses, make good.

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.

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

When the world shoves you around, you just gotta stand up and shove back. It’s not like somebody’s gonna save you if you start babbling excuses.

Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.

The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

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.

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

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

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.

During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.’You must excuse his dirty face,’ said the nurse.Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: ‘With all thy dirt I love thee still.

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

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.