Excuses Quotes
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
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Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire’s budget deficits. It has no moral significance.
Haruki Murakami
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Whenever there is a big difficulty, I don't make excuses. Instead, I say I will solve it even if everybody leaves.
Masayoshi Son
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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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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
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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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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 would like to take revenge but I'm not looking for excuses for having lost to he.
Elena Dementieva
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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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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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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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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
Errol Morris
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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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You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you.
Kiersten White
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Today, we have got more excuses from the government.
Tony Abbott
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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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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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Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.
Haruki Murakami