Top 20 Excuses Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”

— Steve Maraboli

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2. “You can only have two things in life, reasons and results. Reasons don’t count.”

— Robert Anthony

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3. “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

— George Washington

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4. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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5. “When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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6. “Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”

— George Washington Carver

7. “You can make money or you can make excuses. Your choice.”

— John Addison

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8. “No excuses. No explanations.”

— Tony Dungy

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9. “Someday is not a day of the week.”

— Janet Dailey

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10. “When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

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11. “It’s not the time to look for excuses.”

— Rafael Nadal

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12. “Your excuses are nothing more than the lies your fears have sold you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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13. “Never let the things you can’t do, stop you from doing what you can.”

— Ronald Reagan

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14. “Today’s excuses are tomorrow’s regrets dressed in disguise.”

— Steven Furtick

15. “Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called ‘Someday I’ll.’”

— Denis Waitley

16. “A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don’t have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren’t going to finish a book.”

— Nora Roberts

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17. “Winners make the effort while losers make excuses.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

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18. “The excuses we make destroy the results we deserve.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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19. “Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don’t use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.”

— Jim Rohn

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20. “Don’t tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.”

— Lou Holtz

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21. “The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can’t have it.”

— Tony Robbins

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22. “No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.”

— James Allen

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23. “There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”

— J.K. Rowling

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24. “If I’m committed, there is always a way.”

— Tony Robbins

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