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.

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

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.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

There are so many people that use ‘following your dreams’ as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.

Don’t make excuses, make good.

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.

We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.

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.

I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I once impressedas snotty and superior, and together they will provide a convenient excuse to disbelieve me.

The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the ‘greatest good for the greatest number’ can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.

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.

If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole…It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite ‘Asian values’ as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.

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