Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Ignorance is no excuse it's the real thing.

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

It's a great excuse and luxury having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes bigger government and less trade with other nations.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making primarily at the federal level and the big issues of the day are not being addressed leaving our future in jeopardy.

It does kids no favors and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse for any reason whenever it's possible.

Faith is the great cop-out the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of even perhaps because of the lack of evidence.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

We have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.