"Never suffer youth to be an excuse for……" — Benjamin Haydon

"Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence."

— Benjamin Haydon

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17 Quotes by Benjamin Haydon

Benjamin Haydon has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next…
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring…
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry,…
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it…
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and…
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but…

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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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