Excuses Quotes
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these."
Epictetus
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It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
Benjamin Carson
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You can make excuses and you can make money, but you cannot make both.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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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
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The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.
Thomas Sowell
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No excuses; those were just weak.
Abbi Glines
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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
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We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.
Tony Abbott
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Today I know what I felt, but then I didn't understand. At that instant I had only an unpleasant impression, as if he had given the signal and from then on all I could do was to sink by degrees into repugnance. In reality I felt above all a blaze of hatred toward myself, because I was there, because I had no excuses, because it was I who had decided to come, because it seemed to me that I could not retreat.
Elena Ferrante
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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
Errol Morris
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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 made the wrong turn, especially on the second one. They were hard hit balls, but I'm not going to make excuses. I screwed up, and probably cost the game.
Bobby Abreu
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Life is what you make of it. Don't make excuses - make it happen.
Hakeem Seriki
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Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.
Anthony Robbins
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I would like to take revenge but I'm not looking for excuses for having lost to he.
Elena Dementieva
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Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
George Eliot
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A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.
Mike Piazza
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Today, we have got more excuses from the government.
Tony Abbott
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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
Tony Abbott
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More excuses for more failures.
Tony Abbott
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You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you.
Kiersten White
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Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.
Haruki Murakami
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Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.
Ariana Franklin