Excuses

 

Thomas Fuller
Bad excuses are worse than none.

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Jonathan Swift
A lie is an excuse guarded.
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French Proverb
Justifying a fault doubles it.
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Publilius Syrus
Every vice has its excuse ready.
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Don Wilder and Bill Rechin
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
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Elbert Hubbard
Don't make excuses - make good.
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George Washington
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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Proverb
Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for.
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Dave Del Dotto
No one ever excused his way to success
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Gabriel Meurier
He who excuses himself accuses himself.
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Aldous Huxley
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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Bill Copeland
How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.
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William Shakespeare
And oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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Yiddish Proverb
If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
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Marcus Fabius Quintilian
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Thomas Szasz
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
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Edward R. Murrow
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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Florence Nightingale
I attribute my success to this:  I never gave or took an excuse.
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Author Unknown
Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them.
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Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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Hebbe
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
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John Burroughs
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Jimmy Fallon
Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.
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Author Unknown
The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse.
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Robert Townsend
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.  ~
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Robert Brault
If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.  Never excuse yourself.
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Steven Grayhm
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
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William Arthur Ward
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people, to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
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François de la Rochefoucauld
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
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Jules Renard
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
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Bob Moawad
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.
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Ani Difranco
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.  Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
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