Top 1200 Making Excuses Quotes & Sayings

First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.

Failure is not an option, and I always felt like I'm a man who doesn't have regrets, and I don't live with excuses. I can't take excuses.

It is easy to make excuses when we ought to be making opportunities.

To me, Pride is loving myself and not making excuses for anything: Live in your truth.

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

Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.

We all have excuses. We could all take all of the things that have happened to us over the course of our lives and use them as excuses for being cruel to others.

I'm so tired of making excuses for old white men.

Making excuses and not trying because I was scared were my go-to reactions. Nothing was going to change in my life unless I did something about it.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

If you don't go through life making excuses, you save yourself, your friends, and parents a lot of trouble.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

People love to make excuses, forget all the excuses, if it doesn't work out, failure is the best thing that can happen to somebody, people are extremely scared of failure.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

This fight should be dubbed, 'No Excuses.' If Carl Froch beats me, there won't be any excuses. I beat Carl Froch, there shouldn't be any excuses. No judges, no referees, no nothing. May the best man win.

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.

Making excuses is not my profile or that of Madrid.

I felt like I'd spent many years making excuses for my executives and making excuses for political candidates I was representing and their views, when some of those political views, in my mind, were very distasteful.

There are excuses for dropping the ball or missing a tackle. But there are no excuses for not playing with a passion for your team-mates and as long as I get that response and they play well, I'll be happy.

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!

Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry all the time. No reason to trying to be happy; it's not possible. You're a victim. Victim of what? Well, you're a victim of derision. Well, you're a victim of America. You're a victim of America's past, or you're a victim of religion. You're a victim of bigotry, of homophobia, whatever. You're a victim of something. The Democrats got one for you. If you want to be a victim, call 'em up.

I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.

Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.

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.

I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

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

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you.

Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.

What if i fail?" ...the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear.

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

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'.

I found people that were willing to push me. I was like, 'These are my goals. I need you to get me here.' I don't need any excuses. I won't make any excuses. I'm over making excuses.

[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

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

When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

One thing I realized, I was making too many excuses and not taking responsibility for how I was playing.

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

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.

Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.

In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.

When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful.