Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
Quotations
Excuse
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
