36 Quotes on Excuses

• Fear and excuses are the chains that bind us from reaching our true potential.

  Author: Michelle Lee

• There may be two sides to every story, but only one truth to every excuse.

  Author: Riley Carew

• In the pursuit of success, pave your path with determination rather than excuses.

  Author: Samantha Reed

• I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.

  Author: David Wells

• I'm not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games.

  Author: David Wells

• I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

  Author: Pete Waterman

• It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

  Author: William Ward

• I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

  Author: Serj Tankian

• We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

  Author: Serj Tankian

• People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

  Author: J. Straczynski

• The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

  Author: O. Simpson

• Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.

  Author: Jose Serrano

• If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

  Author: Bruce Nauman

• Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

  Author: Addison Mizner

• Continually finding excuses for taking a small glass of brandy and water.

  Author: John Leech

• As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

  Author: Goran Ivanisevic

• Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

  Author: Aldous Huxley

• These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.

  Author: Joe Henderson

• If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave.

  Author: Paul Gascoigne

• I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

  Author: Diane Furstenberg

• Bad excuses are worse than none.

  Author: Thomas Fuller

• 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.

  Author: J. Fulbright

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

  Author: Benjamin Franklin

• I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.

  Author: John Engler

• Don't make excuses and Don't talk about it. Do it.

  Author: Melvyn Douglas

• Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.

  Author: Bill Dixon

• People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

  Author: Mike Ditka

• It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

  Author: Bobby Darin

• Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

  Author: Mason Cooley

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

  Author: George Carver

• I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

  Author: Jimmy Carter

• And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

  Author: Octavia Butler

• Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time".

  Author: Bo Bennett

• The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

  Author: Henry Beecher

• I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

  Author: Louie Anderson

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