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
Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy. — Thurgood Marshall
I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else. — Benjamin Franklin
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
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. — Nina Simone
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.
Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted. — A. R. Bernard
There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful. — William Morris
When someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.
Make No Excuses Quotes
Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself. — Deepak Chopra
Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame. — Ray Bourque
Each day you're presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses, or you can let it out. So the best way to begin unlocking inner greatness is to make a conscious choice to live out the rest of today, with the best you. — Lewis Howes
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
When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill. — Condoleezza Rice
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. — Steven Grayhm
You can have results or excuses. Not both.
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. — Karl Marx
We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses. — Kyle Maynard
Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life. — Haruki Murakami
The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth. — Feisal Abdul Rauf
There Are No Excuses Quotes
With my fighters, there's no excuses like, 'Hey, listen, he's a dumb guy. Came from the mean streets of somewhere. He's just not all that bright.' These are educated guys, most of them went to college, they have families, children, etc. These are smart, rational people I'm dealing with. — Dana White
From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out. — Jurgen Habermas
If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses. — Bruce Nauman
If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse
I think it is important that independent government agencies be put in charge of investigating misconduct so that police departments are no longer allowed to police themselves. There is a conflict of interest there which, I believe, allows police to excuse their own behavior. — Bernie Sanders
The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this. — Jon Corzine
The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others — Iain Banks
Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency. — Edward Snowden
Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers. — Ambrose Bierce
There’s no tipping point where you become what you are. Character development starts when you’re growing up. Your socioeconomic background contributes. The attitude that gets you through some communities doesn’t work in corporate America. It’s not an excuse, but it does help explain — Maurice Clarett
Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses. — Nick Park
Inspirational No Excuses Quotes
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can. — Ashleigh Brilliant
When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results. — Ken Blanchard
I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses. — Jim Rohn
I attribute my success to this I never gave or took any excuse.
As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration. — Tim Gunn
If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses. — Holly Lisle
The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It's time to change. It's time to live life at a new level. — Tony Robbins
No Excuse 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
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
Your excuses are just the lies your fears have sold you.
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
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
Do not give power to your excuses. Own your circumstances, because no one else will. — Alex Hormozi
If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not you'll find an excuse.
Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn't matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses. — Tom Platz
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. — Jim Rohn
I've always believed that anyone can achieve their dreams, regardless. I've always had this attitude about no excuses. A belief that I can go on and do what I need to do. To go on, to succeed, regardless. — Kyle Maynard
Stop Making Excuses Quotes
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top. — O. J. Simpson
Stop making excuses for why you can’t do something and start finding reasons why you can. — Steven Bartlett
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. — Oprah Winfrey
Excuses are the rocks where our dreams are crushed.
Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits. — Joyce Meyer
I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing. — Tony Abbott
What if i fail?" ...the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear. — David Meerman Scott
Excuses don't construct monuments. Action does.
The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere. — Larry Constantine
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes. — Roy Bennett
If [Eva Braun] was crying upstairs, it wouldn't be long before [Adolf] Hitler would quietly excuse himself and then make things right. What he said to her, I don't know. Whether he said the words "I'm sorry," I don't know. But he was a charmer, he knew how to stop a woman from crying. — Gretl Braun
Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today? — Ingrid Weir
Making Excuses Quotes
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
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
How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting. — John Hagee
Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get things done. — Jocko Willink
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. — Benjamin Franklin
People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy. — Democritus
Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses. — John Wooden
Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect it. And that's happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in this country devoted to making Americans think there's an enemy within. — Reza Aslan
Our challenge in life is to use the abilities we have, and to compensate for the abilities we don’t have. Successful people compensate for what they don’t have. Unsuccessful people make excuses, blame everyone else and never get past the deficiencies. — Tim Grover
Excuse Quotes
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
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
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
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
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
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
Today's excuses are tomorrow's regrets dressed in disguise. — Steven Furtick
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
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