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Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. -- Mitt Romney
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -- Benjamin Franklin
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. -- George Washington Carver
Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living. -- Bill Dixon
As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined. -- Michael Gove
Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses. -- John C. Maxwell
Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals. -- Ali Vincent
I'm not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games. -- David Wells
I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else. -- Benjamin Franklin
When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful. -- DJ Khaled
Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits. -- Joyce Meyer
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. -- David Frum
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. -- David E. Kelley
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top. -- O. J. Simpson
Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'. -- Robert Foster Bennett
[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today? -- Ingrid Weir
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
Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth. -- Alexander Pope
The people who come to work deserve to be paid properly, and there's no excuse. I could understand someone making a small error, but sometimes people make systematic errors, and that's not right. -- Fred DeLuca
The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy. -- Michael Bloomberg
When you work for somebody who is very technical, and understands and has creative solutions to your problems, it spurs you along and stops you making excuses for things. And I found that very useful. -- David Perry
Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be. -- Jack Canfield
We will never accomplish what God wants for our lives unless we stop making excuses for ourselves and pampering our flesh. When we get into seemingly impossible situations, we have to remember - it's not about us. -- Monica Johnson
If you're making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person. -- Marina and the Diamonds
I don't think I really accepted my power as a woman until I realized that no was a complete sentence. When I stopped making excuses for saying it and began creating boundaries in my life, I knew real power. -- Leeza Gibbons
One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing. -- Eli Roth
When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation. -- Epictetus
I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a 'blue chip' Irish banking sector. -- Sean Quinn
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful. -- Ben Horowitz
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Energy and persistence conquer all things. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! Oh, it's easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Well done is better than well said. -- Benjamin Franklin
There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business. -- Kevin Plank
(The Song Remains The Same) is not a great film, but there's no point in making excuses. It's just a reasonably honest statement of where we were at that particular time. It's very difficult for me to watch it now, but I'd like to see it in a year's time just to see how it stands up. -- Jimmy Page
If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know. If the big banks don't expect to buy influence and are merely making charitable contributions, then their shareholders have a right to know. Either way, there's no excuse for keeping these payments secret. -- Elizabeth Warren
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away,If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be. Slower is better. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy..! -- Oprah Winfrey
We have to stop making excuses. One of the things that I'm careful to show is the horrendous effects of institutional and structural racism, but in the end, you can't wait for white man or a Black man to come riding in on a white horse to save you. We have to save ourselves, and that's the lesson of "The African Americans." -- Henry Louis Gates
Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up! -- Tyrese Gibson
When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses. -- Wayne Dyer
If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises. -- Evan Esar
The choice [is} a familiar one; stop making excuses and shift [your] perspective. -- Andrea Goeglein
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes. -- Roy Bennett
When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else. -- John Landis Mason
It is easy to make excuses when we ought to be making opportunities. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore. -- Halle Berry
Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products. -- Jay Samit
Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. -- George Washington Carver
Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life. -- Haruki Murakami
I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing. -- Tony Abbott
Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses. -- Michael Scott
Making excuses is one of a host of self-defeating behaviours and mental patterns that can block your success. -- Stephen Richards
Making excuses is one of a host of self-defeating behaviours and mental patterns that can block your success." -- Stephen Richards
You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you. -- Kiersten White
Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses. -- Bernd Heinrich
First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave. -- Hillary Clinton
We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses. -- Tony Abbott
I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser. -- Jill Stein
What if i fail?" ...the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear. -- David Meerman Scott
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
Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right. -- Tony Abbott
I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia. -- Tony Abbott
The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere. -- Larry Constantine
When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love. -- Barbara Cooper
Making excuses and not trying because I was scared were my go-to reactions. Nothing was going to change in my life unless I did something about it. -- Erin Willett
There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity. -- Veronica Roth
Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams! -- Grant Cardone
If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses. -- Holly Lisle

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