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