EXCUSES QUOTES

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


One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people’s excuses for failure.

ROBERT TOWNSEND

Further Up the Organization


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


How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses?

IGNAZIO SILONE

Bread and Wine


Excuses are your lack of faith in your own power.

ROBERT ANTHONY

Think Big


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


Bad excuses are worse than none.

THOMAS FULLER

Gnomologia


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


When it comes to excuses, the world is full of great inventors.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

AGATHA CHRISTIE

The Seven Dials Mystery


Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

attributed, The Speaker's Quote Book


There is no greater symphony of self-destruction than the beautifully poisonous melody found in our excuses.

STEVE MARABOLI

Unapologetically You


Oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King John


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


Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

ANDY STANLEY

Enemies of the Heart


Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

KIMBERLY JOHNSON

attributed, Quote Unquote


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