Top 144 Excuses Quotes

Leadership – leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

I’m not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

No excuses. Play like a champion.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a ‘blue chip’ Irish banking sector.

One of the things I’ve always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I’m always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.

All the excuses that people in power used to make for not telling diverse stories or including diverse people, they’ve proven to be false.

I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don’t mention anybody else who was involved, and that’s fine. I don’t expect an artist to give me credit. I know that they’re gonna take the credit for everything. But, it’s my job to give myself that exposure and not make excuses, not grow bitter.

Two of our favorite excuses for holding onto a few extra pounds and being out of shape: Too little time and too little money.

A lot of people in our generation like to make excuses about little things that really don’t hinder them from doing what they want to. It always comes down to the work ethic.

Beast Mode doesn’t make excuses. It doesn’t complain. Whatever you’re doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

I’m a disciplinarian. And I’ve always been disciplined. I like to be on time. If I have a job to do, I’m going to see it from its beginning to its conclusion. No excuses, no alibis. That’s how I run my life. It’s called self-tough love.

It’s important that I work with people where they know why they’re hiring me and that they’re looking to create art without fear. Anyone who uses those excuses to not cast people or to create extremely stereotypical characters, they’re creating out of fear, and to me that’s really boring.

Rather than make excuses for their failures, resilient people learn from each mistake. They identify skills, ideas, and life lessons that can be gained from each failed opportunity.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

The reason it takes me so long to make a film, the reason it gets so difficult, is that I’m trying to think of every film as the last one I will ever make so it can be the best it can possibly be. I don’t want to have regrets or excuses or think, ‘I can do better next time.’

I don’t like to make excuses.

To me, Pride is loving myself and not making excuses for anything: Live in your truth.

I don’t make excuses.

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.

I don’t need to beat Faber, because his ego will always beat him. He’s got excuses for every loss he’s ever had.

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

There are excuses for dropping the ball or missing a tackle. But there are no excuses for not playing with a passion for your team-mates and as long as I get that response and they play well, I’ll be happy.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

I am happy to defend my title. It was a good performance from Chisora. I don’t want to make excuses – it was not easy – but I saw every punch from Chisora. I am upset because I wanted to finish the fight before 12 rounds.

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

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

Anybody that got in your way or stopped you or barred your success, you either push through them or work around them. I don’t have enough time for excuses or crying about people saying how someone wasn’t given a proper opportunity. Nobody gave me an opportunity.

If so and so would have given me the right opportunity, or if this person would have encouraged me – I could have made a million excuses on why I wasn’t playing in the NFL. You have no more excuses… what do you do from now until your opportunity presents itself? It’s all up to you.

We all do things where we don’t care about other people. And we deal with it in whatever ways we can, denial or make excuses.

I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.

There are only two kinds of employees that I’ve run across in 30 years. There are ones that get results, and ones that make excuses. If you’re in that second camp, you’re not going to like Dish.

As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n’ roll and jazz standards.

Like most of us, Joe Biden has had moments when he’s led the league in mistakes or verbal gaffes. The difference is his were on a public stage where explanations are almost always made out by pundits to be excuses.

The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they’re sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls.

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don’t have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

Sometimes we are much better at judging people based on how they treat everyone other than ourselves. We make a million excuses for why they treat us how they do.

Being honest with myself is something I like. I am happy that I don’t make excuses when I make a mistake. This is a good way to improve in the fastest way.

We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive – positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people’s excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way.

America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad – based on huge portions and fast food. Let’s stop with the excuses and start creating something better.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

It’s part of my Special Forces training. You’re taught to come up with a solutions, not look for excuses.

To own up to one’s lack of courage and shortcoming without excuses is courage.

Pitching, if you have a bad start, a lot of the blame is put on you and then you have to sit around and think about it all week. And the same thing with kicking. You either make it or miss and no one is going to make excuses for you. The mentalities of the two are very comparable.

Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.

Be on time for James Dolan – no excuses like Zebras in the road.

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true – you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn’t make excuses.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

In the gym, you get out what you put in. There’s no room for excuses, for taking shortcuts or giving half effort.

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

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

I’m not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games.

Making excuses is not my profile or that of Madrid.

When Indian economy was growing at the rate of 8 to 9 percent, I think everybody was quite happy. Even when there were defects in our policies, they were overlooked, and when the economy slows down, people try to find fault and excuses.

Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.

I think the advantage I have with yoga is that it is something I can do on my own and can’t make excuses that I don’t have a place or the time. One can practice yoga anywhere, anytime. You don’t have to worry about what you’re wearing. For all of these reasons, yoga works for me.

Talent is not enough. It’s a mental game. You have to deal with frustration when you don’t play, you have to deal with the pressure. There are no excuses.

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

I don’t believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

It takes guts to realize you screwed up and to then come clean without any excuses.

I’m so tired of making excuses for old white men.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. ‘The client made me do this.’ ‘The city made me do this.’ ‘Oh, the budget.’ I don’t believe that anymore.

Being honest with myself is something I like. I am happy that I don’t make excuses when I make a mistake. This is a good way to improve in the fastest way.

No excuses. Play like a champion.

You just have to put in the work. Work really hard, get a good coach and a good gym. You have to have the right mindset to be a champion. Don’t make excuses on going to the gym like your ankle is sore or what.

We’ve heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don’t want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it’s just that most of them are white males.

A ballplayer doesn’t make excuses.

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don’t continue the art because they can’t make a living.

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.

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

You can’t make excuses for yourself.

Excuses destroy success every time.

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

If you make no excuses, there’s nothing holding you back.

We will never accomplish what God wants for our lives unless we stop making excuses for ourselves and pampering our flesh. When we get into seemingly impossible situations, we have to remember – it’s not about us.

I’m not the person that when he has an off shooting game is going to make excuses.

When an issue is important to Washington, U.S. officials figure out what leverage they have and use it as assertively and creatively as they can. They don’t make excuses.

Teach your children early not to pass the blame or make excuses, but to take responsibility for their actions.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

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

Award shows in general are just lame excuses to stroke the egos of millionaires, but the ‘ESPY’s’ are an especially embarrassing example.

Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying – at least among adults – is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying.

Don’t let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

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

Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama’s political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician – nay, human being – of our time.

A fiduciary standard means, basically, put the interests of the client first. No excuses. Period.

Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don’t know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I’m not one to make excuses, so I’ll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.

You can make a million excuses for why something didn’t go well, but ultimately, just fix it and get on with it. Be a solutions person.

I’m sorry that I haven’t won the PGA Championship. That would be something that would have pleased me very much. I suppose when I look back, I have a lot of reasons and excuses for not having won the PGA.

I’m a professional; I’ve got to be on weight all the time. There’s not excuses for that.

I felt like I’d spent many years making excuses for my executives and making excuses for political candidates I was representing and their views, when some of those political views, in my mind, were very distasteful.

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

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

I’m still shocked when people say, ‘You haven’t done a studio record in 20 years.’ I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn’t with it.

I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

I don’t feel my best right now, but at the same time, I’m not trying to find any excuses or anything.

I say, ‘You can never use excuses because they always run out.’

In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

President Obama’s election has taught us to stop being paralyzed by excuses and given us a floodgate of hope. I’m more daring and going after things that I once thought were not possible.

Let’s dig deep to build the kind of police force that our fatherland really deserves. We need a revolution of the police force here in Venezuela, and I will carry it out without delay, without excuses.

I hate using excuses, I hate doing excuses.

I don’t like to give in to injuries. I don’t like to use them as excuses. Everybody has them.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

I learned a long time ago that no one wants to hear excuses.

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.

We first fought… in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Not looking for excuses is the right thing to do. I have made a lot of mistakes, and I still make mistakes, but I am not ashamed to look for the reasons behind those mistakes.

Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.

When you don’t feel healthy, stop the excuses and do something. Just go outside, walk, breathe. Life’s too short to fall into a rut. You are in charge of you – treat yourself well, and it’ll show.

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.

I want to stay in my home studio because I’ve pretty much done everything sitting next to the mic by myself as far as engineering, but No Excuses studio in L.A. has become my new favorite place.

God’s plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple – one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we’re busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone’s eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you’ll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.

If you’re making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person.

My Dad doesn’t see limitations; he either sees hard workers or people who are lazy. As a result, despite any disability or obstacle, my siblings and I all lead relatively happy and successful lives. I believe a good deal of this is due to the fact that excuses were rarely tolerated.

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

If the fans want me out, I’ll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won’t make excuses, I’ll leave.

I think the core of Jaime Lannister is actually that final line in the pilot when he says, ‘The things I do for love.’ He might do horrible things – and they are truly, some of them, horrific. There’s no excuses. But he does it out of what he sees as a necessity, out of love.

It is very challenging to adapt to life at a big club like Madrid, but I’m not the kind of person to make excuses.

Michael Jordan taught me after our game of one-on-one: A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse. When excuses are no longer an option, you can focus your attention on the job you have to do, and not why it didn’t get done.

We are all busy. It’s easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems.

I don’t believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

I can think of many reasonable excuses for needing a cocktail, but Cinco De Mayo is always a no-brainer.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

I refuse to allow the excuses in my mind to grow into giants that keep me from living up to my full potential.

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems.

I’m not a sympathetic guy when I see people throwing their lives away and using their life’s obstacles as excuses to fail. I just don’t buy into that.

As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n’ roll and jazz standards.

The reason it takes me so long to make a film, the reason it gets so difficult, is that I’m trying to think of every film as the last one I will ever make so it can be the best it can possibly be. I don’t want to have regrets or excuses or think, ‘I can do better next time.’

Top managers, like Pochettino, Klopp and Guardiola don’t make excuses.

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don’t put them both together by claiming you ‘don’t have the time’.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

I’m not going to say that every record I’ve put out was the greatest record in history, but I’d stand by even the bad ones. Don’t make excuses, make hits.

These thieves defend themselves by saying, ‘I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.’ Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.

I found people that were willing to push me. I was like, ‘These are my goals. I need you to get me here.’ I don’t need any excuses. I won’t make any excuses. I’m over making excuses.