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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. – Gabriel Meurier, Trésor 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. – François 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