Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
Quotations
Excuse
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
-Adolf Hitler
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
