Excuse Quotes

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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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• Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Failure, House

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 25, 2017

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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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• Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Motivational, Badass

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Clever, Motivation, 4th Of July

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• Today's excuses are tomorrow's regrets dressed in disguise.

  Steven Furtick

  Regret, Today, Tomorrow

  Twitter post from Mar 04, 2013

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• The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.

  John Templeton

  Determination, Achievement, Want

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• I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

  Milton Friedman

  Cutting, Liberty, Taxation

  "Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause". Book by Richard A. Viguerie, 2006.

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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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• Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.

  Steven Grayhm

  Views, Tools, Purpose

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• Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Nature, People, Judging

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• We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Success, Failure, Reason

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.310, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

  Billy Sunday

  Lying, Skins, Reason

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• Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.

  Alan Cohen

  Life, Happy, Positivity

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• An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Journey, Best Effort, Obstacles

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• From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Views, Rehabilitation, Moral

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanni Borradori, June 15, 2003.

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, Failure, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.84

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• For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Egypt, Fields

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Hurt, Pain

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 22, 2014

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• There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

  Nina Simone

  Hero, Knowing, People

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• God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

  Stendhal

  Atheist, Doe, Superstitions

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• Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.

  Michael Madsen

  Kids, Acting

  Men's Health, March 2004.

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• Every vice has its excuse ready.

  Publilius Syrus

  Inspirational, Vices, Virtue

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