Quotes About Excuses

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one

I'm not a big fan of working out. Living in Los Angeles makes it much easier for me; I don't ever have an excuse not to be outside.

I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'

People seem to think when you lose a match it's because you are not working hard.

I always wanted to get out of L.A., but time passes, and you find excuses to stay.

There will always be excuses, arguments, and questions of timing when moving on difficult and controversial issues.

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.

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.

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.

there are two people living inside of me.. most conveniently, as I can always put the blame on someone else

Look around. Pay attention to the stories of people who are finishing first. Then realize that all of your excuses are just that—excuses. Ask what has worked for others and how you can make it work for you, too. Ask yourself how you can leverage your unique skills and strengths to accomplish the unthinkable.

The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they've been used a couple of times.

Jerry Seinfeld, he was doing Letterman show all the time, so he kind of had an excuse, that people know the jokes already. He didn't have time to do stand-up. A guy like me, I have no excuses.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

Make time, not excuses.

And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other and then I can just go home and they don't know.

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

Oh, I dasn't, Mars Tom. Ole missis she'd take an' tar de head off'n me. 'Deed she would.

Equally troubling, people seem happy to let us off the hook.

He described the bad lighting and her extremely thick neck, and was careful to make those sound not like excuses but merely like complicating factors.

The horrible thing about being sober is you lose your excuse for being so fucked up.