Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
Quotations
Excuse
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
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
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
