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
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Don Wilder
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
