Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-Bill Rechin
Quotations
Excuse
How strange to use you only live once as an excuse to throw it away.
-Bill Copeland
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
I never gave or took any excuse.
-Florence Nightingale
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
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
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
"The Second Sin"
