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
Quotations
Excuse
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
Bad excuses are worse than none.
-Thomas Fuller
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
