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.

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.

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

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

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

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

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

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

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

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

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

Don’t make excuses, make good.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.

If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse

I hate that you don’t have the insight.
I hate that you shamelessly returned despite being kicked out.
I hate that you don’t even seem to have the slightest self-respect.
And also the fact that you used San as your heart-wrenching excuse to return.
Back to this hell-hole.

I’m a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.

You cannot make progress with excuses.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon Jews as their financiers. But the lower classes had no use for them, and butchered them whenever a righteous excuse could be found. And righteous excuses were not wanting. If a plague broke out, of course the Jews had poisoned the wells. If a war was lost, of course the Jews had aided the enemy. If a boy mysteriously disappeared, of course the Jews had murdered him to procure blood for their Passover drink.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.