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

Melvyn Douglas

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• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Done
  • Job
  • Best

• It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Father
  • Sad

• Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Bad
  • Excuses

• Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Up
  • Why
  • Home

• I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Hate
  • Disease
  • Excuses

• What is the reason that we find it so satisfactory to make excuses to ourselves-the only persons in the world to whom they must be altogether needless ?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • World
  • Excuses

• 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.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • People
  • Stop
  • Evil

• No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • People
  • Time
  • Progress

• We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Excuses

• God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • God
  • Remember
  • Simple

• There's no room for being disappointed or for excuses, 'Oh, I had four match points.'

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Excuses

• I grew up watching period dramas, as we all did in the 1980s and '90s - endless adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - and I loved them. But I never saw anyone like me in them, so I decided to find a story to erode the excuses for me not doing one.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Up
  • Period
  • Excuses

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

  

  David Wells
  • Excuses

• I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • Family
  • Excuses

• Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Excuses
  • Excuse

• You can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself as long as you have the discipline to pay the price to do what you need to do and to never give up. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Up
  • Long
  • Giving

• You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • You
  • Progress
  • Choose

• Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

  

  Clifford Stoll
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• No, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• As the nature deficit grows, another emerging body of scientific evidence indicates that direct exposure to nature is essential for physical and emotional health. For example, new studies suggest that exposure to nature may reduce the symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and that it can improve all children's cognitive abilities and resistance to negative stresses and depression.

  

  Richard Louv
  • Attention
  • Emotional
  • Stress

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

  

  Melvyn Douglas
  • Excuses