Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Excuse
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
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
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
