Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
Quotations
Excuse
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
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
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
