It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
Quotations
Excuse
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
-Adolf Hitler
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
