Quotes and Sayings About Excuse
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Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted.
-- A. R. Bernard -
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
-- Agatha Christie -
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.
-- Albert Payson Terhune -
The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.
-- Albert Reynolds -
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
-- Alexander Pope -
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.
-- Ali Vincent -
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-- Amit Abraham -
Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.
-- Amy Chua -
Anger is its own excuse and its own reward ...
-- Anne Rivers Siddons -
Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
-- Antonin Artaud -
Yeah I got a question: Any more excuses tonight, Roy?
-- Antonio Tarver -
You can have results or excuses. Not both.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.
-- Arthur Ashe -
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
-- Arthur Ashe -
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
-- Barbara Jordan -
I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
-- Benjamin Jowett -
Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
-- Bernd Heinrich -
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
-- Bill Vaughan -
An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
-- Billy Sunday -
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
-- Bob Lewis -
You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
-- Brian Tracy -
I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.
-- Brit Marling -
Make excuses to train not excuses not to train!
-- Brock Larson