100 Excuses Quotes

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Famous Excuses Quotes

Excuse me? I'm alive too. — James Patterson

I said excuse me you're a hell of a guy, I mean my my my my you're like pelican fly! — Nicki Minaj

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said. — Richard Brautigan

Will you please shut the hell up!? — Chris Jericho

What do you think you're doing? — Ben Aaronovitch

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time. — Dennis Miller

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. — Graham Chapman

One time, hey, in high school this girl told me, hey, its not you, its me.. Ofcourse its you, you dang HEFFER! — Si Robertson

pretty please, with a cherry on top of me! — Gena Showalter

Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself. - Eric Clapton

Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself. — Eric Clapton

Don't look at me in that tone of voice. — Dorothy Parker

Girl, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself! - Glenn Beck

Girl, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself! — Glenn Beck

Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat. — Dr. Seuss

You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it! — Angelo Dundee

Check yourself before you wreck yourself. - Meg Cabot

Check yourself before you wreck yourself. — Meg Cabot

Short Excuses Quotes

  • If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. — Jim Rohn
  • Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. — George Washington Carver
  • When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful. — DJ Khaled
  • I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else. — Benjamin Franklin
  • There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. — Nina Simone
  • The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses. — Al-Ghazali
  • My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom. — Fela Kuti
  • had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young. — Kenny Chesney
  • Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them — John Bosco
  • Excuse me: I am homeless. I am gay. I have AIDS. I'm new in town. — John Mulaney

Excuses Image Quotes

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. - Yiddish Proverbs quote

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. — Yiddish Proverbs

Excuses quote Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.
You can have results or excuses. Not both. - Arnold Schwarzenegger quote

You can have results or excuses. Not both. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Motivation is the weapon you use to eliminate your excuses. - Tim Fargo quote

Motivation is the weapon you use to eliminate your excuses. — Tim Fargo

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable. - Zig Ziglar quote

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable. — Zig Ziglar

Today's excuses are tomorrow's regrets dressed in disguise. - Steven Furtick quote

Today's excuses are tomorrow's regrets dressed in disguise. — Steven Furtick

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. - Rudyard Kipling quote

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. — Rudyard Kipling

Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted. - A. R. Bernard quote

Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted. — A. R. Bernard

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses. - Bruce Nauman quote

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses. — Bruce Nauman

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful. - William Morris quote

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful. — William Morris

Excuses quote When someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.
When someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.

Excuse Me Quotes

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated. — Fulton J. Sheen

You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience. — Oprah Winfrey

Excuse me while I kiss the sky. - Jimi Hendrix

Excuse me while I kiss the sky. — Jimi Hendrix

Excuses quote Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready. — Helen Mirren

Never ruin an apology with an excuse. — Benjamin Franklin

Last time I went Intercity there were a couple across the aisle having sex. Of course, this being a British train, nobody said anything. Then they finished, they both lit up a cigarette and this woman stood up and said, Excuse me, I think you'll find this is a non-smoking compartment. — Victoria Wood

Excuses quote You can have results or excuses. Not both.
You can have results or excuses. Not both.

You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in. — J. K. Rowling

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me. — Joe Pesci

I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it. — Sayings

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation. — Susan Meiselas

Excuse Quotes

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy. — Thurgood Marshall

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones. — LeCrae

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. — William Arthur Ward

Excuses quote If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse
If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse

Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, 'It's business.' That is, 'it's business' has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges. — Ida Tarbell

If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle. — Gary Yourofsky

I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy. — Shane Koyczan

Excuses quote Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.
Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.

I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little. — Jerry Garcia

Never make excuses for someone who disrespects you-who they are or what they do isn't a pass to treat you like trash! — Trent Shelton

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. — Ida B. Wells

There may be people that have more talent than you,but theres no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do. — Derek Jeter

Pardon Me Quotes

Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine — Marie Antoinette

If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish. — Lana Turner

You'll pardon me gentlemen if I make the fight short. I have a train to catch. — Sam Langford

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

I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I fear not death. . . Pardon my enemies, O Lord: blinded by passion they know not what they do. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. Mary, Mother of God, succor me! — Fidelis of Sigmaringen

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying. — Charles II of England

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra. — John Goodman

Excuses quote Your excuses are just the lies your fears have sold you.
Your excuses are just the lies your fears have sold you.

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! — William Shakespeare

Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not. — Baldassare Castiglione

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall. — Friedrich Nietzsche

So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea. — William Morris

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More Excuses Quotes

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results. — Ken Blanchard

I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse. — Ulysses S. Grant

No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. — Frederick Douglass

Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process. — Bernie Sanders

How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting. — John Hagee

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. — William Lloyd Garrison

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

Bad things are always going to happen in life; People will eventually hurt you, but you can't use that as an excuse to hurt someone back. — Chris Brown

The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it. — Tony Robbins

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself. — Deepak Chopra

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. — Kobe Bryant

When you are in love with a man or a woman, the love you feel does not come from him or her; it is the love flowing from you own heart that you feel. Your partner is simply giving you an excuse to love. Love is always found flowing in your heart, not in your family, lover, career or art. — David Deida

The best diet is the “no excuses” diet and the best workout is the “man up” workout. — Naval Ravikant

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