Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. ~Bill Clinton


Every vice has its excuse ready. ~Publilius Syrus


We have forty million reasons for failure; but not a single excuse. ~Rudyard Kipling


Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson


Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ~Edward R. Murrow


Usually; terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all; but just terrible things. ~Russell Baker


It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. ~William Arthur Ward


Bad excuses are worse than none. ~Thomas Fuller


The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. ~Jules Renard


Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood; so that at least I'd have an excuse. ~Jimmy Fallon


Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. ~Steven Grayhm


Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses. ~Hebbel


One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure. ~Robert Townsend


Don't make excuses - make good. ~Elbert Hubbard


We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. ~Marcus Fabius Quintilian


Maybe you don't like your job; maybe you didn't get enough sleep; well nobody likes their job; nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life; but you know; there's no escape; there's no excuse; so just suck up and be nice. ~Ani Difranco


Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. ~Ambrose Bierce


Two wrongs don't make a right; but they make a good excuse. ~Thomas Szasz; The Second Sin


If you don't want to do something; one excuse is as good as another. ~Yiddish Proverb


Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ~Aesop


The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on; rely on; or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. ~Bob Moawad


He who excuses himself accuses himself. ~Gabriel Meurier; Tr?sor des sentences


Several excuses are always less convincing than one. ~Aldous Huxley; Point Counter Point


Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. ~Don Wilder and Bill Rechin


We have more ability than will power; and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. ~Fran?ois de la Rochefoucauld


No one ever excused his way to success. ~Dave Del Dotto


Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb


We are all manufacturers - some make good; others make trouble; and still others make excuses. ~Author Unknown


Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb


Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them. ~Author Unknown





The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse. ~Author Unknown


"How strange to use ""You only live once"" as an excuse to throw it away. ~Bill Copeland"


A lie is an excuse guarded. ~Jonathan Swift


The absent are never without fault; nor the present without excuse. ~Benjamin Franklin


He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ~Benjamin Franklin


Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy; as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon - the pardon is granted; but the joint aches; especially if there is a corn upon it. ~Lord Byron