Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS was a British politician of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Benjamin Disraeli quotes will motivate you in life.
Best Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
- “There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honor.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” ~ 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
- “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Never take anything for granted.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “A member of Parliament to Disraeli: ‘Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.’ That depends, Sir,’ said Disraeli, ‘whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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“Never complain and never explain.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “There is no education like adversity.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “All my successes have been built on my failures.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Everything comes if a man will only wait.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses – half the cabinet are not asses.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Ignorance never settles a question.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “If you don’t believe in magic, then you can’t believe in reality.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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“The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “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
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“Sir, I shall not defeat you – I shall transcend you.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” ~ 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 Quotes
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“He who gains time gains everything.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “A precedent embalms a principle.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “The tone and tendency of liberalism…is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with the great increase in public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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“To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “As a rule, man is a fool. When it’s hot, he wants it cool; When it’s cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.” ~ 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
- “Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
