Im not 100% sure, but the first time I heard it was from Tiffany on Bad Girl Club season 3
I don't know the author's name, but I remember my younger brother memorizing it in elementary school as: Excuses, excuses, excuses! Excuses are tools of incompetence that build monuments of nothingness. Those who specialize in them, accomplish nothing at all, but excuses, excuses, excuses. Not as the first responder suggests here: "Excuses are monuments of nothingness, They build bridges to nowhere, Those of us who us these tools of incompetence, Seldom become anything but nothing at all."
This quote means that people who make excuses are often avoiding taking responsibility for their actions or lack of action. By relying on excuses, they are essentially wasting time and energy on justifying their failures rather than working towards success. In the end, these excuses do not lead to any meaningful achievements or progress.
Nice try but the actual poem is "Excuses are tools of incompetence, that build monuments of nothingness, and those who specialize in using them seldom do anything else." Excuses are tools of nothingness build bridges that lead to nowhere and are masters of no one.
There are several variations of this poem. One variation is, "Excuses are tools of the incompetent. And those that use tools of incompetence never accomplish anything in life worthwhile."
Bryan Barber
The quote was originally found in Poor Richard's Almanac, so basically originated with Benjamin Franklin's publication (nom de plume of Richard Saunders) But since Poor Richard's almanac was a publication gathering information from various sources, the original source may be someone else, uncredited.
Steven Grayhm!
it means that if you keep making excuses then you'll never get anything done or you'll fall at it
You cannot do anything for a person who has an excuse for everything. You can try calling them on their excuses or point out to them that they are ultimately responsible for their own actions and they need to stop using excuses.
if you mean likebad kids, they are very good about excuses and think they can do anything
No Excuses was created in 1994.
excusa = (he/she) excuses (verb) excusas = excuses (noun) 'disculpa/disculpas' work in the same way.