I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
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"
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
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
-Adolf Hitler
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
