I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Quotations
Excuse
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
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.
-Bill Rechin
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
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
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
