No Excuses Quotes - Page 7

• I tell you again, God hath not ordinarily decreed the end without the means; and if you will neglect the means of salvation, it is a certain mark that God hath not decreed you to salvation. But you shall find that He hath left you no excuse, because He hath not thus predestined you.

  Richard Baxter

  Mean, Election, Neglect

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.315

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• There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!

  Roscoe Turner

  Airplane, Aviation, Flight

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• There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

  Irene Khan

  Rights, Names, Abuse

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• Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.

  Desmond Tutu

  Years, Knowing, People

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  There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

  Derek Jeter

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

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• Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.

  Graham Greene

  Revenge, Worry, Tests

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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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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• There is no excuse for anyone not to train three times a week...Anyone can change their mind if they want to. It's all about motivation

  Lou Ferrigno

  Motivation, Mind, Three

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• The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.

  Thomas Sowell

  Fate, People, Tragedy

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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, Excuse You, Environmental

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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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• As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.

  Tim Gunn

  Inspiration, Long, Amazon

  Tim Gunn (2010). “Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work”, Simon and Schuster

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• It was definitely a scary situation and I was frightened for my husband, but that is no excuse. I was disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job. I have nothing but respect for the police and I'm very sorry for my behavior.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Jobs, Sorry, Husband

  "Police video: Reese Witherspoon in handcuffs" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. April 24, 2013.

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• No excuses. No explanations.

  Tony Dungy

  Excuse, Explanation

  Tony Dungy, Nathan Whitaker (2014). “Living Your Life's Purpose”, p.78, NavPress

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• Cowgirl is a spirit, a special brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head on, lives by her own lights, and makes no excuses. Cowgirls take stands. They speak up. They defend the things they hold dear. A cowgirl might be a rancher, or a barrel racer, or a bull rider, or an actress. But she's just as likely to be a checker at the local Winn Dixie, a full-time mother, a banker, an attorney, or an astronaut.

  Dale Evans

  Mother, Light, Special

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• Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Thinking, Criminal Mind

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• There is no excuse not to give two minutes today to intend your tomorrow.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Two, Giving, Today

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “Secret Daily Teachings”, p.353, Simon and Schuster

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• Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Fighting, Years, Mankind

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• The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.

  George W. Plunkitt

  Opportunity, Men, Political

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• It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. One of my troubles is, I never care too much when I lose something - it used to drive mother crazy when I was a kid. Some guys spend days looking for something they've lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much. Maybe that's why I'm partly yellow. It's no excuse, though. It really isn't. What you should be is not yellow at all.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mother, Fun, Crazy

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Hands, Community, Society

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• There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

  James W. Loewen

  Book, Thinking, Pages

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• Today, there is no excuse for any one of us to sit back and go, "Ugh! There's nothing I can do about it."Because there is always something that can be done.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Done, Ugh, Today

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• Now that we have the line-item veto there is no excuse for Congress to put pork in and no reason for the president not to line-item veto it out.

  John McCain

  President, Pork, Lines

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• There are no excuses. There are no good reasons.

  Eric Thomas

  Excuse, Reason

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