Excuse Quotes

Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.

I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

Tell the President to stand up to our enemies, not cower to them or make excuses for them!

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.

Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

Don't give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

Dont try to excuse yourself by saying you're doing it for someone else's sake. - Break

She [my wife] has had a Caesarean, so she can't bend over. It's a good excuse [for not changing nappies], I suppose.

Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

We shouldn’t use our own upset as an excuse for not helping.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.

Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.

I think to trust in the sovereignty of God does not excuse my personal responsibility. Just the opposite - it equips me to be personally responsible.

Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

Don't make excuses and don't talk about it. Do it.

Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.

I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.

Excuses excuse us from fulfilling our potential.

I say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.'

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

One of the reasons people aren't rich is because almost everyone has more excuses than money.

There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses.

The end excuses any evil.

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.