It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
William Arthur Ward

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

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

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

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

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Aldous Huxley

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
G. M. Trevelyan

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
O. J. Simpson

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

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
J. William Fulbright

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.
Joe Henderson

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.
Jose Serrano

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

We first fought... 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

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
Margaret Fuller

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