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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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. – George Washington

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No one ever excused his way to success. – Dave Del Dotto

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Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. – Steven Grayhm

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A lie is an excuse guarded. – Jonathan Swift

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