Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
– Benjamin Disraeli
All my successes have been built on my failures.
– Benjamin Disraeli
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
– Benjamin Disraeli
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Success is the child of Audacity.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and
generally create ourselves.
– Benjamin Disraeli
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are
not behind the scenes.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain
failure.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Little things affect little minds.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses – half the cabinet are
not asses.
– Benjamin Disraeli
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
– Benjamin Disraeli
A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Travel teaches tolerance.
– Benjamin Disraeli
You will never go higher than your thinking.
– Benjamin Disraeli
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand
may succeed. These are fearful odds.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the next important thing is to know when to
forego an advantage.
– Benjamin Disraeli
London is a modern Babylon.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
I am prepared for the worst but hope for the best.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.
– Benjamin Disraeli
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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.
– Benjamin Disraeli
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
– Benjamin Disraeli
A majority is always the best repartee.
– Benjamin Disraeli
An author who talks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own
children.
– Benjamin Disraeli
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Great countries are those that produce great people.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a
gentleman.
– Benjamin Disraeli
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Justice is truth in action.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to
him his own.
– Benjamin Disraeli
There is no education like adversity.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
– Benjamin Disraeli
No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
– Benjamin Disraeli
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
– Benjamin Disraeli
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
– Benjamin Disraeli
There are three types of lies – lies, damn lies, and statistics.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are
always questioning never learn anything.
– Benjamin Disraeli
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.
– Benjamin Disraeli