I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Quotations
Excuse
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
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
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
