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Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli Motivational Quotations:
“Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
“Never complain and never explain.”
“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”
“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.”
“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”
“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”
“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea.
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
“There can be economy only where there is efficiency.”
“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”
“Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.”
“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”
“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”
“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”
“Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
“Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.”
“There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.”
“The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.”
“There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.”
“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”
“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.”
“A precedent embalms a principle.”
“Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.”
“We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.”
“My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.”
“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”
“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”
“Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.”
“No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.”
“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”
“Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.”
“London is a roost for every bird.”
“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”
“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”
“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.”
“What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.”
“Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.”
“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”
“Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.”
“London is a modern Babylon.”
“Justice is truth in action.”
“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”
“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.”
“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.”
“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.”
“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.”
“Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.”
“The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.”
“Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.”
“As for our majority... one is enough.”
“There is no index of character so sure as the voice.”
“Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.”
“There is no gambling like politics.”
“William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.”
“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.”
“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”
“The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.”
“Success is the child of audacity.”
“We cannot learn men from books.”
“Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”
“Travel teaches toleration.”
“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.”
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”
“He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”
“Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.”
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
“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.”
“Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.”
“Damn your principles! Stick to your party.”
“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.”
“What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.”
“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”
“To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.”
“It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.”
“The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.”
“A majority is always better than the best repartee.”
“Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.”
“The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.”
“I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.”
“Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.”
- “Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”
“Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense”
“Without tact you can learn nothing.”
“Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.”
“Assassination has never changed the history of the world.”
“Duty cannot exist without faith.”
“The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.”
“Despair is the conclusion of fools.”
“A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.”
“We moralize among ruins.”
“There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.”
“The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.”
“Great countries are those that produce great people.”
“The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.”
“Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.”
“Fear makes us feel our humanity.”
“Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.”
“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.”
“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”
“King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.”
“Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.”
“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”
“Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.”
“Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.”
“When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.”
“The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.”
“That fatal drollery called a representative government.”
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