Excuses usually satisfy only those who use them.
Convention: An excuse for doing the unconventional.
Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
An ounce of performance is worth a ton of excuses.
An excuse is first cousin to a lie.
Avoiding a few hypocrites in church may result in spending eternity with all of them hereafter.
Love will find a way—indifference will find an excuse.
Excuses get in the way of being a success.
If all the crutches were laid end to end, there still wouldn’t be enough for the lame excuses.
No one can get fat on excuses, but everyone can get fed up on them.
Some stumble over their feet, then blame others for tripping them.
Most failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults.
Never accuse others to excuse yourself.
A good race horse does not ask for a dry track.
A poor workman always finds fault with his tools.
We are all manufacturers—making good, making trouble, or making excuses.
The reason that dollar bills wear out so quickly is that people are always passing the buck.
The successful man is always able to find excuses for others but not for himself.
The hardest tumble a person can take is to fall over his own bluff.
Lame excuses come from lame Christians.
It is often in the summer that the Christian gets snowed under.
Never give an excuse that you would not be willing to accept.