Excuses Quotes
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I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.
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The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
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We covered so much ground on Thursday night that it took us half and hour. I’m not trying to look for excuses but that’s the reality.
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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.
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Don't you hate when people are late to work. And they always have the worst excuses. 'Oh, I'm sorry I'm late, traffic.' 'Traffic, huh? How do you think I got here; helicoptered in!?'
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The major sweep of this book's living is too often marred by qualifying. It is hedged about with ifs and buts and if onlys and howevers, excuses for a life that is about to shut its covers for the last time and then crumple into dust in an unseen and never-to-be-remembered library.
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I used to exercise an hour every day - no excuses. I live in absolutes: I either exercise every day, or I let myself off the hook. I'm trying to find that balance of working out three or four days a week and sticking to it.
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A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.
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Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.
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I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.
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Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.
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Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.
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Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.
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When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.
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Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
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Got any excuses tonight Roy?
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If the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
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There's no room for being disappointed or for excuses, 'Oh, I had four match points.'
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The end excuses any evil.
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Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.
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I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.
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Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.
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Hustle ... Your excuses are someone else's motivation.
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Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
