Quotes about Excuses

A collection of quotes about excuses filled with words of wisdom. Some people use excuses to not accept responsiblity, others use excuses as a way to justify. We hope the quotes and sayings here remind you that an excuse is just that - an excuse!

"Sometimes, people use age as a convenient excuse. 'I'm to old too start something new', or, 'I couldn't learn that at my age.' Other people, though, go on to acheive their greatest accomplishments in life in later years."
Catherine Pulsifer

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded."
Alexander Pope

"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
Francois La Rochefoucauld

"For many people,
an excuse is better than an achievement because
an achievement, no matter how great,
leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future
but an excuse can last for life."
Eric Hoffer

"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."
Florence Nightingale

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

He who excuses himself, accuses himself.
Gabriel Meurier

"Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions."
Charles Simmons

"There's a difference between interest and commitment.
When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit.
When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results."
Art Turock

"Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for."
Proverb

"The trick is not how much pain you feel-but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses."
Erica Jong

"No one ever excused his way to success."
Dave Del Dotto

"I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else."
Benjamin Franklin

"Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing."
Steven Grayhm

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw

"Blaming others is excusing yourself."
Robin Sharma, from The Greatness Guide

"Bad excuses are worse than none."
Thomas Fuller

"Niney-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
George W. Carver

"Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure."
Don Wilder

"Dont' make excuses, make good."
Elbert Hubbard

"Many times age is used as an excuse. I am to old to learn it is to late for me."
Catherine Pulsifer, Are You Learning

"A bad workman always blames his tools."
Proverb

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
Benjamin Franklin

"A lie is an excuse guarded."
Jonathan Swift

"People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses."
Dr. Laura Schlessinger

"Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win."
Chi Chi Rodriguez

"Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure."
Bill Clinton

"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses."
William Arthur Ward

"People who say, 'I'd do it but I don't have the time', or 'I don't have the money', are only making excuses. What they really don't have is determination.
Catherine Pulsifer, Preconceived Notions

"A willful fault has no excuse, and deserves no pardon."
Welsh Proverb

"We are meant to keep focused for new life, for new beginnings, for new experiences, and to use our abilities to move beyond all those things that may serve as excuses to confine us to the now."
Byron Pulsifer, Finally Made It