I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Quotations
Excuse
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
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
