“Most failures are people who have the habit of making excuses.”

“Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

“There are no limitations to excuses. It may give a moment relieve. But, anything outside that is the long-lasting sufferings of what was neglected to underscore before the excuses. So, we make excuses to justify our failures. Because, failure and success are the future life of a doer.”

Idegu Ojonugwa Shadrach (1995)

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

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

“Be careful of your word, even in keeping the most trifling appointment. But do not blame another for a failure of that kind till you have heard his excuse.”

James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician

“Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Indians, of course, have no 'theology,' and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.”

Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright

“people who have failed in their lives, they are suffering their failure. People who have succeeded in their life, they are suffering their success.”

Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian

“A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays