Benjamin Disraeli famous quotes

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Inspirational #Being Yourself #Truth

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Inspirational #Success #Opportunity

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Inspirational #Funny #Motivational

Never complain and never explain.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Political #Advice #Complaining

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Inspirational #Friendship #Success

Nurture your mind with great thoughts
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Inspiration #Mind #Nurture

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Anxiety #Life Is #Unnecessary

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Islands #Justice #Gentleman

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Happiness #Health #People

There is no education like adversity.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Education #Teacher #Motivation

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Fake People #Bullying #Army

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Positive Thinking #Criticism #Politics

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Memories #Hero #Names

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Life #Positive #Veterans Day

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Failure #Political #Politics

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Perseverance #Two #Quality

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Love #Heartbreak #Sarcastic

It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Stars #Light #Way

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Honesty #World #Helpful

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Life #Time #Calendars

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Inspirational #Hope #Planning

Great countries are those that produce great people.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Country #People #Produce

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Attitude #Grief #Men

Life is too short to be little.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Inspirational #Life #Littles

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Life #Motivational #Success

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Music #People #Locked Up

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Respect #Character #Reality

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Funny #Wisdom #Agreement

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Inspiration #Knowledge #Men

He who gains time gains everything.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Gains #Time Management #Management

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Music #Beautiful #Might

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Communication #Humor #Intelligent

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Country #Power #Tolerance

Ignorance never settles a question.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Ignorance #Intelligent #Intelligence

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Beautiful #Hands #Long

A canter is the cure for all evil.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Animal #Evil #Pet

The essence of education is the education of the body.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Educational #Essence #Body

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Happiness #Success #Perseverance

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Men #Behinds

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Class #Community #Protection

Never take anything for granted.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Thank You #Gratitude #Appreciation

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Believe #Intelligent #Destiny

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Political #Preparation #Progress

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Education #Wisdom #Learning

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Two #Political #Feelings

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Government #Hypocrisy #Political

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Inspirational #Travel #Memorable

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Funny #Witty #Truth

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Love #Inspirational #Life

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Political #Different #World

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Party #Political #Politics

Little things affect little minds.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Sarcastic #Work #Teaching

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Life Is Too Short #Life Is Short #Men

Man is only great when he acts from passion.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Wisdom #Passion #Intelligent

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Intelligent #Power #Hypnosis

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Intelligent #Political #Genius

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Change #Intelligent #Inevitable

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Peace #War #Aggravation

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Life #Inspire #Easy

In politics, nothing is contemptible.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Politics

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Leadership #People #Leader

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Success #Lasts

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Change #History #Historical

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Kings #Government #Upset

We moralize among ruins.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Ruins #Morality

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Education #Country #School

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Change #Resistance

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Community #May #Individual

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Intelligent #Errors #Great Service

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Order #Matter #Taste

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Truth #Men #Law

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Fear #Intelligent #Speech

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Fear #People #Steps

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Patience #Genius #Ingredients

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Respect #Mean #Respectability

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Motivational #Thank You #Gratitude

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Adversity #People #Defeated

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Men #Sometimes

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Mother #Intelligent #Diligence

An obedient wife commands her husband.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Husband #Wife #Command

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Wine #Bored #So Bored

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Passion #Garden #Toil

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Sister #Sweet #Voice

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Two #Strategy #Dangerous

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Two #Silence #Ears

Finality is not the language of politics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Politics #Language #Finality

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Writing #Way #Subjects

Everything comes if a man will only wait.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Patience #Hope #Men

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Positive #Stakes #Existence

A precedent embalms a principle.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Intelligent #Principles #Precedent

Adventures are to the adventurous.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Adventure #Vacation #Adventurous

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Economy #Efficiency

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Men #Political #Politics

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Political #Historical #Democracy

Without tact you can learn nothing.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Tact

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Power #People #Injustice

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Government #Long #Political

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Trust #Spring #Exercise