quotations about excuses
He who excuses himself accuses himself.
FRENCH PROVERB
An excuse has been defined as the skin of reason stuffed with a lie.
MICHAEL GREEN
Illustrations for Biblical Preaching
There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.
GEORGE SAVILE
Moral Thoughts and Reflections
Never give an excuse that you would not be willing to accept.
E. C. MCKENZIE
14,000 Quips and Quotes
Bad men excuse their faults; good men will leave them.
BEN JONSON
Catiline
I attribute my success to this--I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
attributed, Quote Junkie
The longer the excuse the less likely it's the truth.
ROBERT HALF
attributed, The Peace Officer's Companion
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
THOMAS SZASZ
The Second Sin
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
JOHN WOODEN
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
A private excuse will not atone for a public insult.
HAMID
attributed, Day's Collacon
Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.
AMERICAN PROVERB
For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, "Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit I have never had a great love or a great friendship; but that is because I never met a man or a woman who were worthy of it; if I have not written any very good books, it is because I had not the leisure to do so; or, if I have had no children to whom I could devote myself it is because I did not find the man I could have lived with. So there remains within me a wide range of abilities, inclinations and potentialities, unused but perfectly viable, which endow me with a worthiness that could never be inferred from the mere history of my actions." But in reality and for the existentialist, there is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving; there is no genius other than that which is expressed in works of art.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Existentialism Is a Humanism
Excuses are like exit signs on the road of progress. They take us off track ... it's easier to move from failure to success than from excuses to success.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Talent is Never Enough Workbook
Once your excuses are gone, you will simply have to settle for being awesome!
LORII MYERS
No Excuses
The dog ate my notebook with all my good excuses.
MINDEE ARNETT
The Nightmare Affair
The man who wants to do it finds a way; the man who doesn't finds an excuse.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Point Counter Point
The best excuse is to have none.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Some of life's biggest heartaches come from missed opportunities and lame excuses. Don't miss out on what could be the best chapter in your life because you're too busy rereading the last one.
KANDI STEINER
Song Chaser
Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above!
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You