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“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else”
Benjamin Franklin
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
Bob Moawad
“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.”
William Arthur Ward
“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
Kimberly Johnson
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.”
William Shakespeare
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
George Washington
“Excuse my dust”
Dorothy Parker
“God's only excuse is that he does not exist”
Stendhal