I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Quotations
Excuse
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
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
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
