Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
- Russell Baker

Continually finding excuses for taking a small glass of brandy and water.
- John Leech

If the fans want me out, I’ll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won’t make excuses, I’ll leave.
- Paul Gascoigne

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

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow

Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon — the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.
- Lord Byron

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.
- Robert Brault

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
- Addison Mizner

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
- Serj Tankian

I’m not going to say that every record I’ve put out was the greatest record in history, but I’d stand by even the bad ones. Don’t make excuses, make hits.
- Pete Waterman

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
- Kimberly Johnson

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
- J. Michael Straczynski

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I’d have an excuse.
- Jimmy Fallon

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

Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them.
- Author Unknown

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

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

People want a cop-out, listen I’m a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.
- Mike Ditka

Don’t make excuses – make good.
- Elbert Hubbard

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
- Mason Cooley

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.
- Diane von Furstenberg

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
- Marcus Fabius

We are all manufacturers – some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses.
- Author Unknown

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
- Gene Tierney

Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
- Ambrose Bierce

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

I do not have excuses, I only have reasons, to give, to love and to service.
- Ivonne Sanchez

One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people’s excuses for failure.
- Robert Townsend

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.  Never excuse yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Don’t make excuses and Don’t talk about it. Do it.
- Melvyn Douglas