Quote by Florence Nightingale
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. -

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. – Florence Nightingale

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. – Florence Nightingale

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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. – Florence Nightingale

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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded. – Alexander Pope

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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. – Bob Moawad

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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. – Russell Baker

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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. – William Shakespeare

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