An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Alexander Pope
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  1. Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention. - Roy T. Bennett

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  3. We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. - Rudyard Kipling

  4. You cannot solve a problem in the same frequency in which it was created. - Lynn Grabhorn

  5. Your identity depends on your heart's ability to excuse not on the power or the money you own. - Bharath Mamidoju

More Quotes By Alexander Pope
  1. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

  2. Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

  3. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

  4. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

  5. Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

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