Excuse Quotes

• The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses.

  

  Sarah Lacy
  • Ideas
  • Company
  • Barriers

• My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Judge
  • Give
  • Excuse

• Everybody's not going to understand where God has called you to go, but that is not an excuse for you not to go there. Then, when He puts you in certain places, it's a spiritual warfare to stay there.

  

  CeCe Winans
  • Christian
  • Spiritual
  • Excuse

• The Universe is responding purely to the desire that you have right now, and if the desires that you have right now are pure and unencumbered by all of your excuses about why you're not where you want to be, your vibration would be pure and the Universe would yield to you easily and it would not take years or weeks or days. It would be instant manifestation.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Desire
  • Universe
  • Week

• 'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second.

  

  Clive Woodward
  • Care
  • Winning
  • Brilliant

• Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Up
  • Leadership
  • Leader

• Whatever outrageous dream keeps flowing across your mind, allow it to live inside you. Don't deflect it, diminish it, invalidate it or come up with some excuse for why it can't happen. This will allow it to explain itself to you - why it's there, what it means, and what if anything you should do about it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Live
  • Mind

• There's absolutely no excuse for throwing a piece of equipment on an umpire or any player. You can argue your point and at times may accidentally bump an umpire, but to consciously throw a piece of equipment at someone is unforgivable.

  

  Brad Ausmus
  • Arguing
  • Equipment
  • Bumps

• The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Heart
  • Hate
  • Justice

• Excuse me, but I believe you have my lady,” one of them said in a quiet, deep voice that sent veritable chills down George’s spine. Harry.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Believe
  • Quiet
  • Excuse

• There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

  

  Steven Brust
  • Excuse
  • Manners
  • Reflexes

• Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Games
  • Grew
  • Obsession

• The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Dont blame others for your own inadequacies.

  

  Greg Ginn Black Flag
  • Blame
  • Threat
  • Predator

• Listen I'm the baddest in the school, the baddest in the game Excuse me honey but nobody's in my lane

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • School
  • Game
  • Bragging

• Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Church
  • Sinner
  • DIssociates

• We shouldn't use our own upset as an excuse for not helping.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Helping
  • Use
  • Excuse

• Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Creativity
  • Behavior
  • Obnoxious

• Treat yourself like a fat person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck-you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.

  

  Chalene Johnson
  • Pain
  • Luck
  • Athlete

• The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.

  

  Evo Morales
  • War
  • Drug
  • Excuse

• My favourite riposte to a heckle is to say, 'Excuse me, I'm trying to work here. How would you like it if I stood yelling down the alley while you're giving blow jobs to transsexuals?'

  

  Paul Merton
  • Trying
  • Blow
  • Favourite

• If I get an order to evacuate a Jew from his home, to expel him, me, personally, my conscience would not let me do it. I'll ask my commander to excuse me, but I won't publicly call on others to refuse an order. I personally can't.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Home
  • Order
  • Excuse

• For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.

  

  David Hurn
  • Photography
  • About
  • Excuse

• I think the most important challenge that remains is this mentality in Washington that sanctions have been an asset, and some people want to find even an excuse to keep them or an excuse to reintroduce them. I don't know whether they've looked at the record of how sanctions actually produce exactly the opposite of what they wanted to produce.

  

  Mohammad Javad Zarif
  • People
  • Important
  • Challenges

• People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Opinion

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