Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
Quotations
Excuse
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
-Brian Tracy
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
-Robert Brault
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
