Quotes with excuses

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  • Benjamin Franklin He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Fran Lebowitz How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Hanif Kureishi If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
    Hanif Kureishi
    British playwright, filmmaker and novelist (1954 - )
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  • Addison Mizner Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
    Addison Mizner
    American architect (1872 - 1933)
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  • Ben Horowitz 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
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Ben Carson It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bobby Darin It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • John Updike It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Carlos Santana Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • George Washington Carver Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Bo 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'.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Brian Tracy Refuse to make excuses or blame others.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ben Carson So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bob Moawad The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
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  • Napoleon Hill The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • O. J. Simpson The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Alan Cohen There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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