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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
  • Excuse
  • Excuses

• Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Temptation
  • Explain
  • Excuses

• 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

• Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also had this temper.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Great
  • Education

• Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • inspirational

• I find myself just in the same situation of mind you describe as your own, heartily wishing the good, that is the quiet of my country, and hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • Country
  • Mind

• Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Food

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

  

  Melvyn Douglas
  • Excuses