quotations about excuses
Create a great excuse, and stick with it, and failure is guaranteed.
MIKE DODIER
Live Your Way Fit
There are a great many excuses that are worse than the offense.
H. W. SHAW
attributed, Day's Collacon
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
ALEXANDER POPE
On Various Subjects
There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Excuses are your lack of faith in your own power.
ROBERT ANTHONY
Think Big
How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses?
IGNAZIO SILONE
Bread and Wine
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people’s excuses for failure.
ROBERT TOWNSEND
Further Up the Organization
Oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King John
Bad excuses are worse than none.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
The Seven Dials Mystery
When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.
JOHN L. MASON
You're Born an Original Don't Die a Copy
Spoken by others, one's excuses never have the kindly camouflage provided by one's own speech; they emerge sharply outlined, unmistakably recognisable as excuses.
JANET FRAME
Towards Another Summer
Petty and shuffling excuses, which satisfy vain and little minds, do but irritate generous ones still more than the fault which they would explain away; there is no valid repentance but that which is full and sincere.
PRINCESS DE SALM DYCK
attributed, Day's Collacon
There is no greater symphony of self-destruction than the beautifully poisonous melody found in our excuses.
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You
Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
attributed, The Speaker's Quote Book
When it comes to excuses, the world is full of great inventors.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
KIMBERLY JOHNSON
attributed, Quote Unquote
Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.
ANDY STANLEY
Enemies of the Heart
A bad excuse confirms a fault.
AL-ISFARAINI
attributed, Day's Collacon
He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
ANN BRASHARES
My Name Is Memory