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  • 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."

    Horse   Men   White Man  
    "Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.
  • Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you want your life to work at a level you've never had before, then take responsibility for it.

    "A Conversation with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.
  • Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

    Kind   Excuse   Ends  
  • The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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?

    Life   Past   Today  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Children   Men   People  
    "Michael Gove's 'anti-Mr Men' speech in full". Speech in Brighton College by Michael Gove, politics.co.uk. May 09, 2013.
  • If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

    Funny   Witty   Revenge  
    Laurence J. Peter (1979). “Peter's people”, W. Morrow
  • I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

    "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" by Frank McCourt and Erin Gruwell, (p. 410), 2007.
  • It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

    George Washington, Jared Sparks (1839). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799”, p.201
  • We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

    "David Frum On Republicans And Health Care". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 1, 2010.
  • Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.

    Lying   Excuse   Habit  
    Twitter post from May 28, 2013
  • Don't make excuses, make good.

    Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”
  • 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'.

  • Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

  • 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.

  • First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.

    School   Kids   Parent  
    Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.223, Simon and Schuster
  • I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

    "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.
  • People who achieve great things are people who make choices. Far too many people today let life dictate their future instead of the other way around. Choices are hard - that's why so few actually make them. But as the saying goes - not to make a choice is to make a choice. When it comes to choices, The question is - what choices will you make today? The world doesn't care about your problems, or what's holding you back. They don't care about your past failures, or any other obstacles you face. Stop making excuses and start making choices.

    Past   People   Choices  
  • Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.

    Views   Tools   Purpose  
  • I'm not making excuses for the missed opportunities of the Israelis, or the lack of generosity, the lack of empathy that I think goes hand-in-hand with the suspicion. So, yes, there is more that the Israelis need to do to really demonstrate that they do understand the pain of an oppressed people in their minds, and they want to figure out, within the bounds of security and a Jewish democratic state, what can be accomplished.

  • 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.

  • Maybe it’s my own fault. Maybe I led you to believe it was easy when it wasn’t. Maybe I made you think my highlights started at the free throw line, and not in the gym. Maybe I made you think that every shot I took was a game winner. That my game was built on flash, and not fire. Maybe it’s my fault that you didn’t see that failure gave me strength; that my pain was my motivation. Maybe I led you to believe that basketball was a God given gift, and not something I worked for every single day of my life. Maybe I destroyed the game. Or maybe you’re just making excuses.

  • 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.

    Art   Tired   Years  
  • We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

    Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.310, Wordsworth Editions
  • And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

    William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330
  • Two wrongs don't make a right.

    Revenge   Humorous   Math  
    Roald Dahl (2016). “The GFG: The Guid Freendly Giant: The BFG in Scots”, p.145, Black & White Publishing
  • 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..!

  • Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

    John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • 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.

    Trying   Scared   Excuse  
    Source: www.sheknows.com
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