Benjamin Robert Haydon
6 quotes.
Quotes by Benjamin Robert Haydon
- Do your duty, and don’t swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
- Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
- Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
- The first proof of a man's incapacity for anything is his endeavouring to fix the stigma of failure upon others.
- The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
- When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well he is done for.