Excuses Quotes
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The end excuses any evil.
Sophocles -
To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.
C. S. Lewis
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I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the lights may have been a problem.
Kevin Keegan -
The sleepy like to make excuses.
Benedict of Nursia -
Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.
Ali Vincent -
I'm sorry that I haven't won the PGA Championship. That would be something that would have pleased me very much. I suppose when I look back, I have a lot of reasons and excuses for not having won the PGA.
Arnold Palmer -
The most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels it's against their constitutional right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think any of these are good enough excuses for the damage.
Angelina Jolie -
I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.
James Cash Penney
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.
Rita Mae Brown -
Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying - at least among adults - is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying.
Andrew Lansley -
No excuses; those were just weak.
Abbi Glines -
When you live with integrity and value your word over your excuses, you have the power to speak your dreams into existence.
Hal Elrod -
If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.
Seth Godin
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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.
Anna Kendrick -
Whenever there is a big difficulty, I don't make excuses. Instead, I say I will solve it even if everybody leaves.
Masayoshi Son -
Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?
Brian Tracy -
We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive - positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people's excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way.
Andrew Lansley -
Got any excuses tonight Roy?
Antonio Tarver -
The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.
Scott Spencer
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Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off.
George Osborne -
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.
Andrew Lansley -
I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
Errol Morris -
Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us.
Mariella Frostrup