Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. – Don Wilder and Bill Rechin

It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. – P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse

Several excuses are always less convincing than one. – Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse. – Author Unknown