Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

"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."

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

"Never complain and never explain."

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

"As for our majority... one is enough."

"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."

"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

"The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy."

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

"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."

"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret."

"War is never a solution; it is an aggravation."

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

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

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

"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity."

"There is no education like adversity."

"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."

"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."

"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."

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

"Justice is truth in action."

"Never take anything for granted."

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."

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

"Where knowledge ends, religion begins."

"Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."