Excuses Quotes

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

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Excuses,are nothing more,than a reason to fail.

Submitted by Mac McGovern.
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A lie is an excuse guarded.
- Jonathan Swift

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Don’t make excuses make good.
- Elbert Hubbard

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Bad excuses are worse than none.
- Thomas Fuller

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Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
- Kimberly Johnson

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No one ever excused his way to success.
- Dave Del

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He who excuses himself accuses himself.
- Gabriel Meurier

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

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Don’t do what you’ll have to find an excuse for.
- Proverb

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

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Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
- Don Wilder

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Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.
- Thomas Szasz

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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
- Benjamin Franklin

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If you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble or making excuses.
- H. V. Adolt

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Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I’d have an excuse.
- Jimmy Fallon

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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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Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people’s excuses.
- Hebbel

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There aren’t nearly enough crutches in the world for all the lame excuses.
- Marcus Stroup

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People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
- Laura Schlessinger

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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
- Alexander Pope

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

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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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

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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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We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
- François

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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