I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don’t have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn’t pawn this off on anybody. I’m sorry it happened. And I hurt people.
- Louie Anderson

A lie is an excuse guarded.
- Jonathan Swift

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.
- Bob Moawad

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
- Don Wilder

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.
- Bruce Nauman

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

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

I’m not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.
- David Wells

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems.
- James Cash Penney

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
- Jules Renard

I think what’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn’t say it’s the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
- Jimmy Carter

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

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don’t find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.
- Goran Ivanisevic

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
- Aesop

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn’t, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn’t make any difference.
- John Engler

He who excuses himself accuses himself.
- Gabriel Meurier

I’m not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games.
- David Wells

How strange to use “You only live once” as an excuse to throw it away.
- Bill Copeland

I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write – every day, no excuses. It’s so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they’d rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
- Octavia Butler

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