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Excuses

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. – Jules Renard

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

He who excuses himself accuses himself. РGabriel Meurier, Tr̩sor des sentences

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

How strange to use “You only live once” as an excuse to throw it away. – Bill Copeland

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

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

Bad excuses are worse than none. – Thomas Fuller

A lie is an excuse guarded. – Jonathan Swift

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. – Henry Ward Beecher

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. – Marcus Fabius Quintilian

There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. – Edward R. Murrow

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. – Bill Clinton

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

The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Every vice has its excuse ready. – Publilius Syrus

We are all manufacturers — some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses. – Author Unknown

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com