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• It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

  George Washington

  Motivational, Teacher, Honesty

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1839). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799”, p.201

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• Never excuse yourself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ballet

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• Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Faith, Atheist, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins' Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival (April 15, 1992); quoted in "EDITORIAL: A scientist's case against God", "The Independent"(London), (p. 17), April 20, 1992.

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• Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

  Richard Dawkins

  Faith, Atheist, Thinking

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• We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

  Quintilian

  Life, Sloth, Difficulty

  "Institutio Oratoria". Textbook by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, I. 12,

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• The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Wisdom, Time, Past

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• Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it’s like an excuse for Halloween everyday.

  Gwen Stefani

  Halloween, Band, Want

  "Gwen Stefani Rocked The Sheer Trend Back In The ‘90s" by Amanda McGowan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.

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• The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

  O. J. Simpson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No excuses. No explanations.

  Tony Dungy

  No Excuses, Explanation

  Tony Dungy, Nathan Whitaker (2014). “Living Your Life's Purpose”, p.78, NavPress

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• Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

  Charles Simmons

  Failure, Confession, Dare

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• If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

  Colin Powell

  Arrogant, Arms, Complacency

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• In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

  Erica Jong

  Passion, Divorce, Motherhood

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.15, Penguin

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• The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cynical, Faults, Absence

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.36, Nayika Publishing

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• Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

  Milan Kundera

  Inspirational, Funny, Ambition

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• Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Inspirational, Failure, History

  Comments after President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, January 20, 1961.

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• Excuse the mess but we live here.

  Roseanne Barr

  Cleaning, Mess

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• Love's an excuse to get hurt.

  Conor Oberst

  Hurt, Hurt Feelings

  "Song: Lover I Don't Have to Love ("Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground")". 2002.

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• I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, Brother, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286

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• As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.

  Deryck Whibley

  Stupid, Dark

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• I think we live in an age of self empowerment and possibilities, the only excuse to not do something is yourself.

  Ji Lee

  Thinking, Self, Empowerment

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• When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

  David Blunkett

  Travel, Exercise, Giving

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  To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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• There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Inspirational, Sad, Depression

  "Finding Viggo" by Alex Kuczynski, Vanity Fair, January 1, 2004.

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