Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

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

Inspirational, Best, Hope

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

Happiness, May, Action

Never complain and never explain.
Benjamin Disraeli

Motivational, Complain, Explain

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

Success, Life, Secret

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

Great, Good, Greatest

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

Critical, Correct, Easier

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

Truth, Feeling, Apologize

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

Success, Good, Mother

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

Different, Behind, Governed

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli

Courage, Fire, Bullying

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

Power, Human, Control

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

Sympathy, Feelings, Different

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

Wisdom, Great, Passion

I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Truth, Justice, Action

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

Inspirational, Great, Thoughts

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

Women, Men, Strength

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

Love, End, Born

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli

Government, Hypocrisy, Organized

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, Short, Himself

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

Happens, Expect, Seldom

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.
Benjamin Disraeli

Long, Nothing, Human

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

Respect, Future, Makes

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, Power, Exercise

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

Destiny, Soul, Chance

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

Age, Struggle, Regret

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Statesman

Born: December 21, 1804

Died: April 19, 1881

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