
The Lesson, Stanza 8 (1899-1902).
Other works
The Lesson, Stanza 8 (1899-1902).
Other works
“Most failures are people who have the habit of making excuses.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Hitler's interview with Richard Breiting, 1931, published in Edouard Calic, ed., “First Interview with Hitler, 4 May 1931,” Secret Conversations with Hitler: The Two Newly-Discovered 1931 Interviews, New York: John Day Co., 1971, p. 22. Also published under the title Unmasked: Two Confidential Interviews with Hitler in 1931, published by Chatto & Windus in 1971
1930s
p. 53. https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/53/mode/1up
Memories (1919) https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/n0/mode/2up
“Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 7
To B. A. Hinsdale in 1874, as quoted in The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield: 1831-1877 (1925) by Theodore Clarke Smith, p. 517
1870s
“A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.”
Four in America (1933)
“99% of failures come from people who make excuses.”
Source: Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (1994), p. 37.