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Making Excuses Quotes

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

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.
- Haruki Murakami

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge," Aomame said.
"Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire's budget deficits. It has no moral significance.
- Haruki Murakami

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

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

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

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
- David Frum

I shook my head. "Don't bother making excuses," I said. "Don't waste your time because, the fact is, I am the Duff. But so is everyone else in the world. We're all fucking Duffs."
"I'm not the Duff," Wesley said confidently.
"That's because you don't have friends."
"Oh. Right.
- Kody Keplinger

I'd 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

We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for the text, filling gaps, mending faults. And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder... as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us--the recognition of something we never knew was there..
- Alberto Manguel

Leadership, leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
- Mitt Romney

Every night I went to bed promising myself I would tell him
goodbye in the morning and leave. But along with the mornings
always came new reasons to delay that, new places to see. I knew I
was only making excuses for myself, but there was no one to
reproach me, so I figured it was OK.
- Danka V

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