Excuses Quotes
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After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.
Lou Holtz
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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
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Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
David E. Kelley
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Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.
Yami Gautam
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Work hard and never make excuses.
Master P
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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
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If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away,If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be. Slower is better. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy..!
Oprah Winfrey
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The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.
L. Neil Smith
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
J. William Fulbright
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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
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I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.
Johan Santana
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No one likes getting hit. It's a normal thing... I used to make up excuses when the coach would ask me to get in the ring. I'd say I forgot my mouthpiece, or I'd say I had a headache or something.
Mandy Bujold -
I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.
John Engler
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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
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Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.
John Travolta
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Don't make excuses and don't talk about it. Do it.
Melvyn Douglas
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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
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As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.
Idina Menzel
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Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
Frank Gehry
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You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses...
Bill Gates
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Aldous Huxley
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You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
Brian Tracy
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In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.
Pep Guardiola
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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