Excuse Quotes

No excuses. Just do the work.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

When I hear excuses muttered from another, I'm reminded to stop repeating those of my own.

Life is what you make of it. Don't make excuses - make it happen.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

The US bombed them back to traditional values – feminism does not exist in Japan. While I don’t like judging an entire culture…that does not excuse them.

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

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

If all you do is make excuses, then that is how people see you. Make your strengths visible.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

I have an excuse, actually, why I've been drinking so much. I haven't said this out loud yet - this is exciting - I'm drinking for two. Thank you, wow. I mean, just for now. Somebody's being evicted.

Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.

'If only' is the excuse of the loser; 'I can' is the affirmation of the winner.

Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude.

There is no excuse for anyone not to train three times a week...Anyone can change their mind if they want to. It's all about motivation

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

Blaming others is excusing yourself.

Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.

When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

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

I think people use fame as an excuse to lose their faith. Faith is obviously my number one priority and I think you need to put God at the top of everything you do.

'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second.

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

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.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.

It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

I was never NOT confident about doing scenes without my shirt - and now I'll find any excuse to take my shirt off!

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

Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.

I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.