Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. (Quote by - Steven Grayhm)

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future but an excuse can last for life." (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. (Quote by - Marcus Fabius Quintilian)

Don't make excuses - make good. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. (Quote by - Walter Kerr)

Every vice has its excuse ready. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)

Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used. (Quote by - Robert Brault)

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure. (Quote by - Robert Townsend)

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. (Quote by - Jules Renard)

How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away. (Quote by - Bill Copeland)

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses. (Quote by - Hebbel)

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

Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for. (Quote by - Proverb)

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)

A lie is an excuse guarded. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement. (Quote by - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)

He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Quote by - Gabriel Meurier)

Bad excuses are worse than none. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)