Excuse famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted.
-- A. R. Bernard -
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
-- Agatha Christie -
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.
-- Albert Payson Terhune -
The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.
-- Albert Reynolds -
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
-- Alexander Pope -
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.
-- Ali Vincent -
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-- Amit Abraham -
Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.
-- Amy Chua -
Anger is its own excuse and its own reward ...
-- Anne Rivers Siddons -
Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
-- Antonin Artaud -
Yeah I got a question: Any more excuses tonight, Roy?
-- Antonio Tarver -
You can have results or excuses. Not both.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.
-- Arthur Ashe -
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
-- Arthur Ashe -
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
-- Barbara Jordan -
I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
-- Benjamin Jowett -
Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
-- Bernd Heinrich -
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
-- Bill Vaughan -
An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
-- Billy Sunday -
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
-- Bob Lewis -
You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
-- Brian Tracy -
I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.
-- Brit Marling -
Make excuses to train not excuses not to train!
-- Brock Larson -
If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.
-- Bruce Nauman -
We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.
-- Bryan Batt -
In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.
-- Caleb Carr -
Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
-- Carlos Santana -
Life is what you make of it. Don't make excuses - make it happen.
-- Chamillionaire -
I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
-- Charles de Lint -
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
-- Charles Lederer -
Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.
-- Charles Simmons -
We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.
-- Charlie Higson -
Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.
-- Chris Brogan -
Don´t hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.
-- Christopher McCandless -
All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.
-- Cindy Sheehan -
For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.
-- David Hurn -
Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure
-- Dean Cavanagh -
There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
-- Dean Koontz -
The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.
-- Debbie Ford -
As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.
-- Deryck Whibley -
So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?
-- Dorothy Dunnett -
Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?
-- Dorothy Osborne -
Yes I make mistakes that I don't ever make excuses for
-- Drake -
If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.
-- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott -
I would like to take revenge but I'm not looking for excuses for having lost to her
-- Elena Dementieva -
The foolish square calves pretend to be frightened of our train. Bluffers! Haven't they seen it every day since they were born? It's just an excuse to shake the joy out of their heels.
-- Emily Carr -
I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
-- Errol Morris -
I’m not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living.
-- Flora Rheta Schreiber -
Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses
-- Francis Chan -
The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
-- Gene Tierney -
The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it
-- George Foreman -
The world used us as an excuse to go mad.
-- George Harrison -
Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.
-- Germany Kent -
There’s no excuse…for women today not to own their own power and lead an unlimited life.
-- Gloria Feldt -
I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.
-- Grant Cardone -
An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.
-- Greg Behrendt -
If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
-- Hanif Kureishi -
I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.
-- Heather Mills -
Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
-- Ibycus -
Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel ... for without it, the edifice of an industry built upon grievance and excuse-making is destined to collapse.
-- Ilana Mercer -
You can make it your excuse, or you can make it your story.
-- Isaiah Austin -
The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
-- J. William Fulbright -
What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?
-- James Clavell -
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
-- James Earl Jones -
Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.
-- Jay Samit -
Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude,
-- Jean Chretien -
Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
-- Jeanne Calment -
It seems to me that it's actually harder to invent excuses than it is to get a sale.
-- Jeffrey Gitomer -
The thinner the excuse, the fatter the reason for it.
-- Jerry Scott -
Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.
-- Jerry Seinfeld -
If you're an asshole, you have an excuse for being an ***** because you're a junkie. But then once you give up the drugs, and you're still an asshole, that's problematic.
-- Jerry Stahl -
Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself.
-- Jewel
