Excuses Quotes

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

John Travolta

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If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.

Roddy Doyle

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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.

Mike Barnicle

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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.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

Chris Lowe

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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.

Arnold Palmer

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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.

Sean Quinn

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

Mark Hunt

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We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal; this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.

Julie Burchill

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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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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.

Charlie Ergen

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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.

Tasha Smith

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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.

Manmohan Singh

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There's no room for being disappointed or for excuses, 'Oh, I had four match points.'

Garbine Muguruza

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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.

Joe Henderson

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We all have excuses. We could all take all of the things that have happened to us over the course of our lives and use them as excuses for being cruel to others.

Max Joseph

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I had a period where everything... if it's raining, I'm angry because it's raining. If I miss, it's because the pitch is too wet. It was only excuses. It was not good.

Alvaro Morata

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Everyone knows what crappy food is: high grease, high fat... or what clean eating is. They just make excuses not to do it.

Robert Whittaker

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People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

Mike Ditka

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Excuses destroy success every time.

Jon Taffer

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

David Wells

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I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.

Ashley Rickards

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