Excuses Quotes

Most popular excuses quotes

Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse.

obstacles

No one ever excused his way to success.

success

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses. - Christian Friedrich Hebbel quote.
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

human nature

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. - Florence Nightingale quote.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

accountability

To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness. - Agatha Christie quote.
To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

explaining

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. - Eric Hoffer quote.
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.