Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
Quotations
Excuse
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
