It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
Quotations
Excuse
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
-Robert Brault
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
Bad excuses are worse than none.
-Thomas Fuller
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
