Quotes on excuses
No one ever excused his way to success.
Dotto, Dave Del
Justifying a fault doubles it.
Proverb, French
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
Clinton, Bill
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.
Moawad, Bob
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.
Byron, George Gordon
If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
Proverb, Yiddish
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Kipling, Rudyard
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
Grayhm, Steven
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Aesop
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
Rochefoucauld, François Duc de La
How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.
Copeland, Bill
Don't make excuses - make good.
Hubbard, Elbert
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Quintilian, Marcus Fabius
Bad excuses are worse than none.
Fuller, Thomas
Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them.
Unknown, Author
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Johnson, Kimberly
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Baker, Russell
Every vice has its excuse ready.
Syrus, Publilius
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Bierce, Ambrose