Before you make your next excuse, ask yourself this: What can I do to improve?
Be honest with yourself about what you can do better, and you can free yourself of the blame and the denial that is sure to hold you back. Take responsibility for your actions, and you can live an incredible life of integrity. Make time to create positive momentum, and you will keep moving forward.
Related: Stop Making Excuses for Who and Where You Are
It is within your power to make big things happen. Use these 15 motivational quotes to get your mind right. (No excuses!)
1. “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” —George Washington
2. “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” —Benjamin Franklin
3. “Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.” ―John Wooden
4. “Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” ―George Washington Carver
5. “We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.” ―Rudyard Kipling
6. “Every vice has its excuse ready.” ―Publilius Syrus
7. “If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.” —Bruce Nauman
8. “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” —John Burroughs
9. “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
10. “The trouble with excuses is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.” ―Scott Spencer
11. “Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.” ―Edward R. Murrow
12. “It is wise to direct your anger towards problems—not people, to focus your energies on answers—not excuses.” ―William Arthur Ward
13. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” ―Henry Ward Beecher
14. “People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.” ―Laura Schlessinger
15. “It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.” ―Mahatma Gandhi
Related: Stop Using These 3 Excuses If You Want to Be Successful
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На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать грубую лексику.
На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать разговорную лексику.
я не ищу оправданий
я не оправдываюсь
Я не буду оправдываться
я не ищу никаких отговорок
No, I’m not making excuses.
I’m not making excuses, Jack.
Barry, I’m not making excuses but our affair was secret.
I’m not making excuses, but after the bombing…
CM: I’m not making excuses.
I’m not making excuses for him, but it’s true.
I’m not making excuses for anyone, including myself.
I’m not making excuses, but it’s true.
I’m not making excuses, it’s definitely my fault.
I’m not making excuses, just explaining what happened.
I’m not making excuses for him, only trying to explain a few things.
So there’s different kinds of people, and I’m not making excuses, I’m trying to explain.
Существуют разные типы людей, и я не извиняюсь, а пытаюсь объяснить.
Honey, I’m not making excuses for him,
I’m not making excuses for the software.
I’ve known Louis forever, I’m not making excuses for him, so please don’t take that away.
Я знаю Луи давно, и я не оправдываю его, поэтому, пожалуйста, не принимайте это близко к сердцу.
I not trying to justify it, I’m not making excuses for it.
I not trying to justify it, I’m not making excuses for it.
He said: I’m not making excuses for him but when [Venables and Thompson] were released, I said at the time that they would be at liberty but he would never be free.
Отец сказал: «Не я эту кашу заварил и не мне ее расхлебывать», — сказал он это в сердцах, очень огорченно.
But I’m not making excuses.
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I haven’t been able to work on my thesis due to my ongoing masters and work obligations. I’d like to get in touch with my advisor regarding that, and I don’t want to sound like I’m making up excuses because I really can’t find the time to work on the thesis.
Would the phrase «I don’t want to give you excuses, but» < situation description > be ok?
asked Feb 13, 2015 at 10:05
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How about: I am not making up excuses but…
Or
» I know how much you hate your students making up excuses but I really just was…»
answered Feb 13, 2015 at 13:50
sojournersojourner
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If you have a genuine problem with respect to the completion of your thesis it would sound far better to start with an apology and then explain your problem ,maybe it is not necessary to talk about making up excuses
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answered Feb 13, 2015 at 14:10
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You could say
«I don’t like to give excuses, but I have been really running from pillar to post over the past one week»
You can add that some of the obligations took more of your time than you anticipated and hence you ended up with little to no time to dedicate to the thesis. And you really wanted to make a good job of the thesis, so you need more time.
Good luck 
answered Nov 18, 2015 at 5:40
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The truth is that
I was
a preemie.
I was
several weeks premature, and there
was
talk of oxygen deprivation. I’m not making excuses, but the doctor said.
Люди, вы не помогаете им покаяться, если вы ищите отговорки для них.
I’m not trying to
make
excuses, but
I
want you to know why
I
did what
I
did.
I’m not trying to
make excuses,
but it was my first day.
Я не пытаюсь оправдаться, но это был мой первый день.
I’m not trying to
make excuses,
but you know
I
have changed.
Я не пытаюсь оправдаться, но ты ведь знаешь,
я
изменился.
Look,
I’m
just no ready to bump and grind, and I‘m done making excuses because
I
don’t.
Not that I‘m
making
excuses, you understand, but it wasn’t exactly the best time to have temptation
appear before me in a red dress.
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Каждому из нас хоть раз в жизни приходилось, что называется «отмазываться». К сожалению, тем, кто знает английский, это приходится делать на двух языках. И здесь нужно соблюдать одно важное правило: старайтесь использовать нейтральные выражения или «смягчающую» лексику. Например: вместо того, чтобы сказать «я не могу пойти в этот дорогущий ресторан», лучше выразиться так – «я не могу позволить себе есть в этом дорогом ресторане». Предлагаем вам ознакомиться с группами объяснений, наиболее характерных для житейских ситуаций.
Оправдания
I wish I could, but I had to finish my homework.
Sorry, I can’t afford the prices in a fancy restaurant like this.
I missed the bus.
Вероятно, вы заметили, что в одном из примеров присутствует слово sorry — одно из самых распространенных средств для извинения. В связи с этим прилагательным нужно сделать оговорку: после sorry можно использовать 2 предлога — about и for — в зависимости от значения.
Sorry for — используем, когда вам стыдно за то, что вы сделали.
He wasn’t sorry for hitting the other boy.
Sorry about — опечаленный чем-то. На русский язык мы часто переводим это выражение «мне жаль, что…»
I’m sorry about your losing your job.
Будьте честными при оправданиях!
I couldn’t be bothered.
I didn’t feel like it.
I wasn’t in the mood.
I got bored.
I wasn’t sure what to do.
I couldn’t find the right address.
Если вы вините постороннего человека…
I thought you were going to do it.
You said that you’d do it.
I had to take my grandma to hospital.
Samuel told me that we didn’t need to do it.
Если виноваты технологии
Sorry, I couldn’t make it. The traffic was so heavy.
The bus broke down.
The printer ran out of ink.
The computer crashed.
The internet wasn’t working.
I couldn’t get a connection.
Если погода подкачала
It was too cold.
It was too hot.
The weather was bad, and it caused road chaos.
Если проблемы со временем
I didn’t have the time.
I was too busy.
I had too much on.
I ran out of time.
I wish I could, but I’m going out of town and it’s already too late.
Если здоровье подкачало
Please serve yourself. I’m on a diet and I’m not supposed to eat hot dogs.
I really want to help you out there but my doctor told me not to do any physical work.
You know I can’t help you I’m on medication.
I need to get some rest.
I woke up feeling really bad.
Как оправдать знакомого
He’s tired.
She isn’t usually like that.
She’s just going through a bad patch.
He’s usually quite nice.
They had too much to do.
Обратите внимание на хорошее начало для извинения:
I wish I could, but…
Can you take me to the station tomorrow? – I wish I could, but I am seeing the dentist tomorrow.
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