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A Select Collection of Quotes: Excuses

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Alexander Pope: Quotes: Excuses
An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

Thomas Fuller: Quotes: Excuses
Bad excuses are worse than none.

Unknown Author: Quotes: Excuses
Don't make excuses, make good.

Publilius Syrus: Quotes: Excuses
Every vice has its excuse ready.

Benjamin Franklin: Quotes: Excuses
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Gabriel Meurier: Quotes: Excuses
He who excuses himself, accuses himself.

Henry Ward Beecher: Quotes: Excuses
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Yiddish Proverb: Quotes: Excuses
If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld: Quotes: Excuses
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Napoleon Hill: Quotes: Excuses
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Thomas Szasz: Quotes: Excuses
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

H. V. Adolt: Quotes: Excuses
We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Abraham H. Maslow: Quotes: Excuses
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, and callings.

Rudyard Kipling: Quotes: Excuses
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

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