[Karen37a]

1. “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” —George Washington

2. “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” —Benjamin Franklin

3. “Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.” ―John Wooden

4. “Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” ―George Washington Carver

5. “We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.” ―Rudyard Kipling

6. “Every vice has its excuse ready.” ―Publilius Syrus

7. “If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.” —Bruce Nauman

8. “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” —John Burroughs

9. “We have more ability than willpower, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.” ―François de la Rochefoucauld

10. “The trouble with excuses is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.” ―Scott Spencer

11. “Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.” ―Edward R. Murrow

12. “It is wise to direct your anger towards problems—not people, to focus your energies on answers—not excuses.” ―William Arthur Ward

13. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” ―Henry Ward Beecher

14. “People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.” ―Laura Schlessinger

15. “It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.” ―Mahatma Gandhi

[Nunya]

16. "Second prize: A set of steak knives."

[Karen37a]

17. 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. – Eric Hoffer