I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Quotations
Excuse
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
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
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
