It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
Quotations
Excuse
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
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
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Bad excuses are worse than none.
-Thomas Fuller
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
