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'.

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.

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.

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.

We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

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.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility not making excuses.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.