A collection of powerful excuses quotes to inspire and motivate you to finally take action, stop making excuses, and slay your goals!
We are all guilty of constantly making excuses, whether we like to admit it or not.
We make excuses daily. Constantly telling ourselves that we don’t have enough time, that we are not good enough, that it’s not going to work, or that it’s just too difficult.
But the bottom line is, we will never really know it if we don’t try.
Excuses are what holds us back. Keep us stuck, unhappy, and dissatisfied.
Excuses keep us from living our best life and making our dreams a reality.
You have to wake up and remind yourself that if you hate your current situation, the only way for you to improve it and change your life is if you stop making excuses and start taking action.
You have the power to change your life for the better. You can achieve great things and make a positive difference, all you have to do is to believe in yourself and take the first step.
These inspirational no excuses quotes below will help you do just that.
63 POWERFUL AND MOTIVATIONAL EXCUSES QUOTES
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses
— george washington carver
How to win in life:
1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, grow
5 don’t let people tell you it can’t be done
6 make no excuses
— Germany Kent
Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.
— Roy T. Bennett,
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
— Rudyard Kipling
Stop standing in your own way. Stop making excuses. Stop talking about why you can’t. Stop sabotaging yourself. Decide which direction you are going in and take action. One decision at a time, one moment at a time.
— Akiroq Brost
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
—Henry Ward Beecher
Do Not Lie to Yourself
We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.
— Roy T. Bennett
Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don’t have the wit to deal with the problems of life.
— Joan Lowery Nixon
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.
— Roy T. Bennett
Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn’t mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!
— Israelmore Ayivor
He that good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
— Benjamin Franklin
When you make a mistake, give an apology without an excuse attached to it. The longer an apology, the less authentic it is.
— Steve Maraboli
Excuses are lies wrapped up in reasons.
— Howard Wright
Excuse tries to justify.
— Toba Beta
Don’t make excuses, don’t accept excuses.
— Amit Kalantri
Someday”, you said you’d do it yesterday; Yesterday, you said you’ll do it today. Today, if you push it to tomorrow, it’s likely tomorrow, you’ll shift it to “Someday”! Do it now!
— Israelmore Ayivo
Everything you think stops you from doing something is an Excuse. Because the only thing in the world that can really stop you is you, yourself.
— Akash S. Bansal
Try making a good attempt not a good excuse.
— Amit Kalantri
When faced with a problem, some people find answers and some people find excuses.
— Amit Kalantri
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MORE MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES TO HELP YOU STOP MAKING EXCUSES
Majority of excuses are deliberate attempts to keep success far away! Never be impressed by calling attentions that tell you to give up! Insist, Resist and Persist to the end!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Excuses are lies which we tell ourselves before giving reason to others, we reason ourselves that we have done our best, gradually the reason becomes our belief & ultimately our truth, unknowingly we become responsible for closing the door that can lead us towards improvement.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
Denial is a state of mind with no legs. Therefore, while it works very hard to convince me that I’ve run far away from that which frightens me, it can’t take me anywhere except where I’m at.
— Craig D Lounsbrough
The only “success question” that matters: Do you want to learn or do you want your excuse?
— Richie Norton
Now-people” are winners; they say “now” and they do it “now”! Do not delay.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Don’t stop believing,
Don’t be afraid of change,
Don’t underestimate yourself,
Don’t make excuses,
Don’t cheat yourself,
Don’t ever ever STOP!
— Germany Kent
To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
To become a better you, be diligent and never let the charms of procrastination and excuses seduce you to fall for mediocrity.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Abundant evidence exists to prove that we are continually creating excuses to explain why we do not reach our goals.
— Andrea Goeglein
Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You have no reason to give up if you haven’t tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first you don’t succeed; Try no other option; Just try again with a better approach!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Excuse is the tool of the incompetent. A monument of nothingness, and those that use it are not wise.
— Paul Adefarasin
If you’re looking for an excuse to quit you will find it, but if you are looking for the reason to continue you must fight for it.
— Chris Burkmenn
We have more ability than willpower, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
— François de la Rochefoucauld
You will either find a way, or an excuse. It depends on how badly you want it in life.
— Manoj Arora
MORE QUOTES ON MAKING EXCUSES
There is no excuse for your failure; accept it and try again.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Don’t make excuses; accept responsibility.
You must take responsibility for how you respond to everything that happens in your life; whether you cause it or not. Making excuses is a weak response!
— Michelle Word Hollis
If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.
— Bruce Nauman
Searching for the best solution is by far the best excuse for
inaction.
— Meenakshi Sundaram V.R
Let’s make progress, not excuses.
— Justin Cotillard
Excuses are the nails used to build the house of failure.
— Jim Rohn
It is easier to move from failure to success than from excuses to success.
— John C. Maxwell
Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.
— Israelmore Ayivor
There are only do and don’t; can or can’t is just an excuse.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Action expresses priorities.
— Mohandas Gandhi
Excuses destroy success every time.
— Jon Taffer
Your excuses are just the lies your fears have sold you.
— Robin Sharma
No one ever excused his way to success.
— Dave Del Dotto
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 best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
— G. M. Trevelyan
An excuse is a way of promising ourselves that we will have the same issue again.
— Henry Cloud
Don’t use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!!!
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
When you are good at making excuses, it is hard to excel at anything else.
— John L. Mason
You can dance in the storm. Don’t wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment.
— Israelmore Ayivor
No excuses. Play like a champion.
— Kelley O’Hara
At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.
— Steve Maraboli
Never ever let ‘life’ get in the way of your dreams. ‘Life’ is just another excuse.”
— Monroe Mann
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.
— Jordan Belfort
Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it! Today is a new day!
— Steve Maraboli
Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day’s success.
— Israelmore Ayivor
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
— George Washington
I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse.
— Florence Nightingale
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
— Agatha Christie
Which of these excuses quotes inspired you the most to take action?
Remember, the key to achieving success is about taking responsibility, discipline yourself, hard work, and making no excuses.