H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes

Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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• I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Done
  • Truth

• 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
  • Habits

• 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

• If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • People
  • Remember
  • Way

• I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Time
  • Me
  • Wear

• 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

• We have no time for excuses.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Time
  • 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

• You can make a million excuses for why something didn't go well, but ultimately, just fix it and get on with it. Be a solutions person.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Why
  • Excuses

• I come up with the silliest excuses when it's time to work out. I'll be like, 'Oh no! Now I have to go and find some socks.'

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• 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

• We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.

  

  Lesli Linka Glatter
  • Time
  • Truth
  • 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

• I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress.

  

  Chloe Sevigny

• What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you. That's not just my theory or point of view, it's physics. Life is an energy of giving and receiving... Those that are greedy, hit a road block where they are alone. Give more than you receive and be grateful for those around you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Energy

• No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.

  

  Jane D. Hull
  • Country
  • Earth

• The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Money
  • Nobody

• The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • Political

• Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Excuses