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I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
I never encountered an individual who was adept at offering justifications who excelled in other areas.
2.
When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful.
DJ Khaled
When you cease to offer justifications and you strive earnestly and make a great effort, you will be very prosperous.
3.
Don´t hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.
Christopher McCandless
Do not dally or make justifications. Venture out and accomplish it. You will be incredibly pleased with yourself that you did.
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Never make excuses for someone who disrespects you-who they are or what they do isn't a pass to treat you like trash!
Trent Shelton
'Never allow anyone to pass off mistreatment of you as acceptable simply because of who they are or what they do!'
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No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.
Cus D'Amato
No matter what alibi or justification is presented, the end result of a person's actions are ultimately reflective of their true intentions.
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You cannot make progress with excuses.
Cam Newton
You cannot advance with justifications.
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I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
William Lloyd Garrison
I will be as forthright as authenticity, and inflexible as equity... I am sincere, I will not waver, I will not pardon, I will not give ground even a smidgen, and I shall be heeded.
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I don’t embrace excuses. I embrace solutions.
Jon Taffer
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What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.
Mario Puzo
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Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.
Vladimir Putin
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The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.
Debbie Ford
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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses
Francis Chan
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To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.
Michael Bassey
18.
You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses
Bill Gates
19.
Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
Richard Brautigan
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Work hard and never make excuses.
Master P
23.
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
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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
25.
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
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Don't make excuses - make improvements!
Tyra Banks
27.
Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.
Danny DeVito
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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
30.
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
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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
Chinua Achebe
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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
Billy Sunday
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
35.
Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.
Michael Madsen
37.
Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.
Jack Bickham
38.
The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.
Margaret George
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He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.
Samuel Foote
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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
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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
42.
The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.
Stella Adler
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I don't accept excuses, only solutions.
Jon Taffer
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Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
John C. Maxwell
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
Jet Li
47.
Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.
Kevin Rudd
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The only thing an excuse gives you is an option out of the life you'd like to live.
Wayne Dyer
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The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.
Walter Wink
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You are not made of metaphors,
Not apologies, not excuses.
Sarah Kay