I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Quotations
Excuse
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
-Adolf Hitler
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
