85 Excuses Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing excuses quotes and sayings.
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Short Excuses Sayings
“The best excuse is to have none.” —Ivan Panin
“Work hard and never make excuses.” —Master P
“Several excuses are always less convincing than one.” —Aldous Huxley
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” —George Washington
“Kick the crutch out from under your excuses.” —Lorii Myers
“Don’t do what you’ll have to find an excuse for.” —Proverb
“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.” —Edward R. Murrow
“Excuses and complaints are signs of a dreamless life.” —Bangambiki Habyarimana
“Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.” —Mason Cooley
“Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.” —American Proverb
“Do not make excuses, whether it’s your fault or not.” —George S. Patton Jr.
“An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.” —Billy Sunday
“Success occurs when your dreams get bigger than your excuses.” —Unknown
“The explanation is always longer when there isn’t any.” —Robert Brault
“Most people use excuses for one of three reasons: Fear, Habit.Laziness. ” —Alex Fitel
“You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.” —Brian Tracy
“Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.” —Mason Cooley
“Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them.” —Unknown
“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” —Kimberly Johnson
“A bad workman always blames his tools.” —Proverb
“Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.” —Unknown
“Justifying a fault doubles it.” —French Proverb
“Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.” —Charles Simmons
“Excuses, are nothing more, than a reason to fail.” —Mac Mcgovern
“It’s not the time to look for excuses.” —Rafael Nadal
“No one ever excused his way to success.” —Dave Del Dotto
“Make an effort, not an excuse.” —Unknown
“Don’t make excuses make good.” —Elbert Hubbard
“I attribute my success to this. I never gave or took any excuse.” —Unknown
“It is easier to find an excuse than to find a reason.” —Doug Brown
“There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses.” —Toba Betas
“Maturity is when you stop making excuses and start making changes.” —Unknown
“The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.” —Amit Abraham
“The moment I make an excuse, I confess to many things.” —Muriel Strode
“Every vice has its excuse ready.” —Publilius Syrus
“A lie is an excuse guarded.” —Jonathan Swift
“He who excuses himself, accuses himself.” —Gabriel Meurier
“Failure is a fuel for excuses.” —Unknown
“He who excuses himself accuses himself.” —Gabriel Meurier
“No one ever excused his way to success.” —Dave Del Dotto
“There are reasons, and then there are excuses.” —Unknown
“Excuses are useless. Results are priceless.” —Ziad K. Abdelnour
“Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.” —Unknown
“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.” —Aesop
“Blaming others is excusing yourself.” —Robin Sharma
“A willful fault has no excuse, and deserves no pardon.” —Welsh Proverb
Excuses Sayings
“Leadership – leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.” —Mitt Romney
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” —George Washington Carver
“Don’t use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!” —Bernard Kelvin Clive
“Don’t use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!” —Bernard Kelvin Clive
“If you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.” —Yiddish Proverb
“Do not limit yourself by finding an excuse; only limit yourself by refusing to have an excuse.” —Catherine Pulsifer
“Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.” —John Wooden
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” —Benjamin Franklin
“How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.” —Ignazio Silone
“There aren’t nearly enough crutches in the world for all the lame excuses.” —Marcus Stroup
“It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.” —John C. Maxwell
“Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people’s excuses.” —Hebbel
“Some people use excuses to not accept responsiblity, others use excuses as a way to justify.” —Catherine Pulsifer
“People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.” —Laura Schlessinger
“The trouble with excuses is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.” —Scott Spencer
“Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.” —Bill Clinton
“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.” —Steve Maraboli
“We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams.” —Steve Maraboli
“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.” —Alexander Pope
“Where the heart is willing it will find a thousand ways, but where it is unwilling it will find a thousand excuses.” —Chotu Dhiman
“Don’t let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.” —Sam Altman
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.” —Rudyard Kipling
“The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.” —Benjamin Franklin
“There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.” —Robert Brault
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.” —Henry Ward Beecher
“Once your excuses are gone, you will simply have to settle for being awesome.” —Lorii Myers
“The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.” —Henry Ward Beecher
“Many times age is used as an excuse. I am to old to learn it is to late for me.” —Catherine Pulsifer
“We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.” —H. V. Adolt
Top Ten Excuses Sayings
Here you will find top ten excuses sayings selected by our team.
- “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” —George Washington
- “Leadership – leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.” —Mitt Romney
- “Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people’s excuses.” —Hebbel
- “Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” —George Washington Carver
- “The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.” —Benjamin Franklin
- “There are reasons, and then there are excuses.” —Unknown
- “Success occurs when your dreams get bigger than your excuses.” —Unknown
- “Do not limit yourself by finding an excuse; only limit yourself by refusing to have an excuse.” —Catherine Pulsifer
- “Don’t use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!” —Bernard Kelvin Clive
- “Don’t do what you’ll have to find an excuse for.” —Proverb
