99% of failures come from people who make excuses. — George Washington
Necessity is the mother of taking chances. — Mark Twain
Two wrongs don't make a right. — Roald Dahl
The sinister thing about excuses is they're... valid. — Tom Bilyeu
Top 10 Making Exception Quotes
I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever. — Ferdinand Marcos
My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God. — Nipsey Hussle
There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor. — Lenny Bruce
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. — Les Brown
Nothing matters except life and the love you make. — Chris Martin
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. — Theodosius Dobzhansky
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. — Dale Carnegie
The only way that you can make the most money is to provide an exceptional valued service and charge a ton of money for it. — Alex Hormozi
Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences. — Murray Rothbard
Making Exception Image Quotes
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Make Every Moment Quotes
Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment. — Ahmad Shamloo
When you are in the mountains, you find out who you really are. Any mistake I make, it could be death. When it comes to that moment, you want to survive. You want to live. I climb so I can live every moment of my life. — Nirmal Purja
Every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton. — Charlotte Mason
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty. — Rumi
EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. — Peter Thiel
I know in my heart the dream will be realized. I choose to believe. And choosing is a powerful thing. It's available to you at every moment. You can choose understanding over anger, believing over nonbelieving, action over inaction. It gives meaning to every choice we make. — Yolanda King
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Life is short. Enjoy every good moment, and make the best of every shitty one. It's all a beautiful mess. — Lex Fridman
The lesson learned: Never take your loved ones for granted. And if you’re ever lucky enough to find that one person in life who makes you love more than any other person could possibly make you love, you treat every day together as if it were your last. You cherish every moment. — SebastiAn
Set goals, challenge yourself, and achieve them. Live a healthy life...and make every moment count. Rise above the obstacles, and focus on the positive. — Robert H. Goddard
You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure. — Angelo Sotira
Empty Promise Quotes
Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes. — Peter The Great
This fetishization of wanting more, are empty promises of happiness and fulfillment that never seem to come to fruition. — Paul Jarvis
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom. — Vladimir Lenin
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise. — Charles Handy
There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup. — Ted Kooser
Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master. — Miguel de Cervantes
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty. — Ashraf Ghani
Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises. — Teresa Heinz
During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania. — Dalia Grybauskaite
Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action. — Annie Lobert
Getting Nothing In Return Quotes
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. — Gore Vidal
We are conjured voiceless out of nothing and must return to an unknowing state. What happens in between is an uncontrolled dance, and what we ask for in love is no more than a momentary chance to get the steps right, to move in harmony until the music stops. — Louise Erdrich
Don't give to get. Give to inspire others to give. — Simon Sinek
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.
In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are. — Brenda Shoshanna
Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not. — Joel Osteen
I asked Secretary [Robert] Gates, what did they get in return for giving up the nuclear shield of Poland and the Czech Republic? And you know what his answer was? Nada. They got nothing. — Rudy Giuliani
It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving. — Katharine Hepburn
No Exception Quotes
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. — Ayn Rand
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own. — John Calvin
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes. — Martin Luther
The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands. — Bruce Lee
Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it. — Leo Tolstoy
No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah. — Ibn Taymiyyah
I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the death penalty. There is no purpose that it serves except to further the damage that death has already done. — Mamie Till
Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. — Marquis de Lafayette
...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions. — Joseph M. Juran
To change one's life:
a. Start immediately
b. B. Do it flamboyantly
c. No exceptions
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted. — William James
Fear is like fire. You can make it work for you: it can warm you in the winter, cook your food when you're hungry, give you light when you are in the dark, and produce energy. Let it go out of control and it can hurt you, even kill you... Fear is a friend of exceptional people... You must understand fear so you can manipulate it. — Cus D'Amato
One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's. — George Balanchine
We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it's very easy for science to make a substitute material. There's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington. — Jacque Fresco
To make a judgment you need to compare a current observation to one you’ve made in the past. To be anxious you need to think about the future and anticipate that it’ll be worse than the present. To be bored you need to long for a state other than what’s happening in the present. To be ashamed you need to re-create a moment that no longer exists. To be unhappy you need to focus on what you want that you don’t yet have. With the exception of pain, no one ever suffered from what was going on in the present moment. — Mo Gawdat
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. — Lorraine Hansberry
The research suggests that, with a few exceptions, major events or traumas that occur even three months earlier have little to no effect on our present happiness. The reason is that we are able to make our own happiness. We change the way we see the world so that we can feel better. — William Ury
You cannot make progress without making decisions. — Jim Rohn
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. — Leo Tolstoy
I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel. — Jane Addams
Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance. — Amy Lowell
People never sing...except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about the power of water. People are drawn to water, spas, and sacred streams. Women in labor are drawn to water, too. — Michel Odent
Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common
to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility — John McCain
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. — Brendan Behan
The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed. — Ross Perot
Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it. — Hartman Rector, Jr.
Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. — Lance Morrow
Don't make promises unless you will keep them. Not planning to keep them. Will keep them. Reliability is one of the keys to any good relationship, and good customer service is no exception. — Susan Ward
Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except him. And if something happens to him that is contrary to what he wishes, he makes the trenchant judgement that all that exists is an evil. — Maimonides
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception. — Terence McKenna
Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear. — Emile M. Cioran
Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority? — Ronald Dworkin
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. — Groucho Marx
The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith. — Mary Baker Eddy
If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. — Kanye West
We usually have margaritas on Thursdays but since it's Tuesday I'll make an exception. — Chelsea Handler
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns. — David Ogilvy
Losing a game is not a big deal, except you've got to make sure that you move on and get the next one. — Martin Brodeur
It's a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you'll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past? — Jim Rohn
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn
Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in. — Jane Roberts
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