Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else."
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Excuse
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DJ Khaled
Music Producer
"When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful."
Cam Newton
Football Player
"You cannot make progress with excuses."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
"You can have results or excuses. Not both."
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses"
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"It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me."
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"If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses."
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"We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror."
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"The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses."
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"99% of failures come from people who make excuses."
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"The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death."
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"The only thing an excuse gives you is an option out of the life you'd like to live."
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"A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment."
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"Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself."
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"Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life"
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"Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses."
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"Blaming others is excusing yourself."
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"So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard."
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"Failure is not an option, and I always felt like I'm a man who doesn't have regrets, and I don't live with excuses. I can't take excuses."
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"In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough."
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"An excuse is a lie guarded."
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"Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life."
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"Yes I make mistakes that I don't ever make excuses for"
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"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."
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"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility."
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