Quotation Explorer - 'Excuses'

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone. - Epictetus
The immature person makes excuses to avoid the responsibility of his own potential. - - Wade D. Sadlier
There are those dreamers who make excuses for why they aren't passionate about or creating anything to match their desires and then there's those dreamers who stay up late just to finish a goal that will get them up the next set of stairs. We all have dreams but not everyone makes it a reality. - Nikki Rowe
You clutch your comfortable excuses, saying, Someday I'll be brave, it won't take a lot, just give me one more chance and this time I'll grab it. . - James Alan Gardner
We weren't born to create excuses, we were born to create excellence. - Janna Cachola
Pound it out, get it done, write every day. No excuses. Kerouac said you can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. Damn straight. You’ll sleep a lot better getting your word count in than another quick Twitter check or keeping up to date on the Kardashians. - Dan Alatorre
Stop making excuses and start making history. - A.D. Posey
We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone. - Roy Bennett
Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself. - Steven Brown
ALL EXCUSES must be FOUGHT by taking ACTION against the THOUGHT. ~ Author - Mammy Oaklee
We all are manufacturers in a way - making good, making trouble or making excuses. - H. V. Adolt
The end excuses any evil. - Sophocles
You won't find your dream until you lose your excuses. - Orrin Woodward
Excuses are great, they come in handy in life. Except when they come between a relationship. - lauren gould
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses. - William Arthur Ward
Excuses cost you more than they buy you. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
God given potential minus excuses equals performance for success. - Farshad Asl
We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams. - Steve Maraboli
Find something you love and go for it with all your heart. No excuses, no plan B. Never settle for anything less than you know you can do.It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it. - Charlotte Eriksson
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. - Brian Tracy
Don't make excuses for your mistakes.Don't try to please your enemies.Don't run from your responsibilities.Don't force your opinions on others.Don't complain about things you can change.Don't compare yourself to anyone.Don't let undeserving people into your life. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Living your life on your terms, means No excuses and only results. - LadyTiara
The average person will take the excuses, but the leader will always take responsibilities - Manuel Corazzari
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. - Erica Jong
Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals. - Ali Vincent
Today I will work when others procrastinate, I will confront my fears when others hide from theirs, and I will create solutions when others find excuses; today I refuse to allow my enemies to out work me. - Noel DeJesus
You can make excuses or you can achieve your goals, but you can't do both. - Andrea Gogelein
We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence. - Asa Don Brown
Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! - Mia Love
He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world’s excuses. - Walter Mosley
It’s not the situation -the action that does matter, situations produce excuses, where the actions -the results. - Praveen Chenna
Leave your excuses and live your dreams! - Paul F. Davis
Change occurs when excuses pivot to execution. - Ryan Lilly
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes. - Roy Bennett
Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them. - Germany Kent
To buy excuses, a person must sell his dream. - Orrin Woodward
Let's make progress, not excuses. - Justin Cotillard
Men dressed in an embroidery of excuses are not fit to enter the colorful chamber of champions - Osho Samuel Adetunji
Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. - George Washington Carver
Excuses are a promise of repetition. - Stefan Molyneux
...atheism leaves no room for excuses... - Travis Culliton
Look for excuses to celebrate others, and life will find a way to celebrate you.Make your life a prayer and be the light that touches lives far, wide and beyond. - Pooja Ruprell
Abundant evidence exists to prove that we are continually creating excuses to explain why we do not reach our goals. - Andrea Goeglein
No excuses will lead to no regrets which will give you no limits to your potential. - James Gordon
One of the main reasons and excuses behind every religious failure is a FALSE PROMISE. - M.F. Moonzajer
Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. - George Washington Carver
Lets not use obstacles as excuses for not achieving our dreams, use them as signs that the dream is worth it. - Steven Aitchison
Winning requires a crystal clear vision, relentless passion and complete dedication with No Excuses. - Farshad Asl
Lie to yourself if you want, but you’re not fooling me. Your excuses tell me that you didn’t really want it. - Steve Maraboli
I'll be quite for now because I make mistakes too... but once The Perfect Almighty One judges you, there are no excuses. - A Gentlemen
People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase is practically inevitable. - Sunday Adelaja
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. - Benjamin Franklin
Limited money and family obligations have never stopped a man who really wanted to do something, although they provide excuses for a man who is not really up to the creative challenge in the first place. Find out today whether you are willing to do what it takes. - David Deida
Tomorrow is yesterday’s excuse for today; now has no excuses. - George Alexiou
A strong person can find a thousand ways to make it work; A weak person can find a thousand excuses why it will not. - Andrea L'Artiste
You can change anything in your life if you want to badly enough. Excuses are for losers! - Anonymous
Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses. - Jack M. Bickham
Sometimes, we become afraid to change because others judgment and opinions. Then, we making puerile excuses to please others, not ourselves. - Rofithah Omar
No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make. - Orrin Woodward
Excuses are another way of saying "I don't want to". Purpose doesn't happen without resistance. Push through the barrier. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else. - Benjamin Franklin
Success in writing occurs when your dreams are bigger than your excuses. - T.N. Suarez
Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence. - Israelmore Ayivor
The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin. - Rick Joyner
I don't embrace excuses. I embrace SOLUTIONS - Jon Taffer
Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. - John Selden
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life. - Roy T. Bennett
Excuses; the great chains that entangle purposeful life to the pillar of unpurposeful living - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When you lay down with neglect & sleep around with excuses, you wake up with failure...When you marry your goals & remain intimate with your vision, you'll give birth to your dreams. - Jay Danzie
The next time, you say that you want something, watch your behavior. If you try to cop out of doing what it takes, if you hide behind excuses, if you just don’t want to do what it takes then perhaps reconsider: Is what you think you want actually something that you do in fact want? - Akiroq Brost
If we were to behave half as well as we believe others ought to behave, we might prove ourselves as grand in character as excuses and justifications prevent us from being. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Success is not about what you have; instead, it is about who you are becoming. -Farshad Asl No Excuses Mindset - -Farshad Asl “No Excuses Mindset”
I don’t make excuses, so don’t make excuses for me. When I’m being an ass, it’s because I have one. - Donna Lynn Hope
Don't apologize for expressing passion.Don't back down when it comes to your integrity.Don't let anyone undermine your standards for the sake of ease.Be a character of excellence, NOT excuses. - Janna Cachola
As an entrepreneur you own your business, you expand your brand, you increase your impact, you live with no excuses, and you enjoy your intentional growth daily. - Farshad Asl
The choice [is} a familiar one; stop making excuses and shift [your] perspective. - Andrea Goeglein
Failure is a fuel for excuses. - Jet Li
When you heart knows it doesn't belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue. - Shannon L. Alder
Make decisions, not excuses! - John Di Lemme
Mistakes are not bad; excuses are. - Udai Yadla
Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure - Dean Cavanagh
Sometimes life just walks up to you, excuses itself and punches you in the face. - Mike Kunda
Once I ran out of excuses, I reclaimed my life. Now, I don't need excuses. - Jamie Anne Richardson
Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure. - Habeeb Akande
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes. - Roy Bennett
when i started i had to start no excuses and even without knowing what i am gonna to do just had to do "something" . this fire is needed to do any work otherwise people exist nd die . - jagvir ji
Vulnerability brings honesty. We become most honest with ourselves when we are faced with real fear around a situation or an outcome. Yet many still stay in their comfort zone, listening to their own excuses and lies. - Tony Curl
You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream. - Orrin Woodward
People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase - Sunday Adelaja
Don't use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!!! - Bernard Kelvin Clive
A good man never makes excuses, a smart man is never in a position to need one. - Kyle Barger
You can make excuses and you can make money, but you cannot make both. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do. - Herbert M. Shelton
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses. - Amit Abraham
We don't rise to the level of our abilities, we fall to the level of our excuses - Peter James
A person either buys his dream by surrendering his excuses or he buys his excuses by surrendering his dream. - Orrin Woodward
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