Excuse You Quotes

• It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 02, 2017

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• Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Im Sorry, Apology, Positivity

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  I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

  Florence Nightingale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" by Frank McCourt and Erin Gruwell, (p. 410), 2007.

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• Don't make excuses, make good.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sports, Failure, Commitment

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

  Thomas Szasz

  Revenge, Mistake, Inspiration

  The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations"

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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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• If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

  Bruce Nauman

  Want, No Excuses, Ifs

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• Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

  Ani DiFranco

  Jobs, Nice, Sleep

  Song: Pixie, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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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

  Cities, People, Too Late

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• Women get a little more excited about New Year's Eve than men do. It's like an excuse: you drink too much, you make a lot of promises you're not going to keep; the next morning as soon as you wake up you start breaking them. For men, we just call that a date.

  Jay Leno

  New Year, Morning, Men

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• Sexy as she wanna be and she dancing next so close to me. I said please excuse, you steppin on expensive shoes.

  Ne-Yo

  Sexy, Shoes, Dancing

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• There are only two excuses you can use for missing rugby training - death and docking!

  Alex Wyllie

  Two, Missing, Training

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• The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of generations, however, men will excuse you for not doing as they do, if you will bring enough to pass in your own way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Generations, Genius

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.204, Courier Corporation

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• You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Environmental, May

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• If you had a dime for every excuse you made, I wouldn't have to be here right now.

  Jon Taffer

  Dimes, Made, Right Now

  Twitter post from Nov 03, 2016

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• I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about finding time, scheduling, getting in and cutting the records. I make it happen and that's the name of the game. It's no excuses - you gotta figure it out.

  Rico Love

  Song, Cutting, Games

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• The only legitimate excuse you could have for having a baby in those dire, war torn, famine struck conditions - would be to eat it.

  Doug Stanhope

  Baby, War, Would Be

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• I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Play, Tennis, Trying

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• One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

  William Feather

  Birthday, Age, Picnics

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• So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

  Benjamin Carson

  People, Accepting, Ifs

  "Conversation with Dr. Ben Carson: The Big Picture". "PBS NewsHour", September 7, 1999.

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• The moment you believe your own crap and excuses, you fail.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Believe, Failing, Moments

  Twitter post from Jul 31, 2013

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• All that matters to me is the man in front of me right now. (Tory) I’m not a man, Soteria. (Acheron) I know. But if you think your godhood excuses you from putting the toilet seat down, think again. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Thinking, Toilet Seat

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.698, Macmillan

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• Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

  Terry Pratchett

  Couple, Son, Doors

  "Thud!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2005.

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