“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.”

“99% of failures come from people who make excuses.”

George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States

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

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

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

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

“The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace — not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures.”

J. William Fulbright (1905–1995) American 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

“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

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

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

“There is something impure in the laments about the dangers of our time, as if they could serve to excuse our personal failure.”

Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer

“Today, many people blame their situation on family background. Some would say, ‘I am poor because everyone in my family is poor.’ If you make excuses for being poor, your poverty cannot be excused. Remember, you are responsible for what you give your attention to; so it is unnecessary to blame your situation on anyone. Today, it is common for people to blame their failure on their family background, whereas they attribute their success to their personal effort.”

T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader