Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
Time is the great physician.
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Success is the child of audacity.
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always inquiring never leearn anything.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Life is too short to be little.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
I change my opinion of persons when my taste is offended.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
Adventures are to the adventurous.
Man is not a rational animal. He is only truly good or great when he acts from passion.
You deem you are in darkness, and yet I see a dawn.
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance; that profusion is not magnificence; and that splendour is not beauty.
Without publicity there can be no public spirit, and without public spirit every nation must decay.
Worry... It is 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 grey.
