Top 25 Excuse Quotes of 428 - Page 2

The sleepy like to make excuses.

Sleepy, Excuse

Excuse the mess but we live here.

Cleaning, Excuse, Mess

Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.

Vince Lombardi

Jobs, Goal, Excuse

Vince Lombardi (2001). “What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.21, McGraw Hill Professional

Don't make excuses - make improvements!

Tyra Banks

Improvement, Excuse

Excuse me? I'm alive too.

James Patterson

Alive, Maximum Ride, Excuse

"Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports". Book by James Patterson, May 29, 2007.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

George W. Bush

Growth, Financial, Excuse

George W. Bush (2010). “Decision Points”, p.471, Random House

When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.

Condoleezza Rice

Evil People, Want, Excuse

"PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, July 28, 2005.

Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.

Danny DeVito

Excuse

"Deck The Halls - Danny DeVito interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Father, Sadness, Excuse

When the world shoves you around, you just gotta stand up and shove back. It's not like somebody's gonna save you if you start babbling excuses.

Zoro

World, One Piece, Excuse

If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.

Chinua Achebe

Leader, Groups, Excuse

Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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

Billy Sunday

Lying, Skins, Excuse

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Karl Marx

Compassion, Excuse, Terror

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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

Rudyard Kipling

Success, Failure, Excuse

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

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

Albert Payson Terhune

Winning, Losing, Excuse

Albert Payson Terhune (1930). “To the Best of My Memory”, New York : Harper

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

Alain de Botton

Jobs, Perfect, Excuse

"Office affairs". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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

Michael Madsen

Kids, Acting, Excuse

Men's Health, March 2004.

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.

Stella Adler

Class, Excuse, Performances

Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.341, Vintage

He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.

Samuel Foote

Excuse

William Cooke, Samuel Foote (1806). “Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Esq: With a Collection of His Genuine Bon-mots, Anecdotes, Opinions, &c., Mostly Original, and Three of His Dramatic Pieces Not Published in His Works : in Two Volumes”, p.179