Benjamin Disraeli Quotations

Enjoy these Benjamin Disraeli Quotations that have been shared for many years. Mr. Disraeli lived during the period of 1804 - 1881. A British Politician whose words have inpired many. We hope these famous inspirational quotes are ones that you will share.
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
Benjamin Disraeli

Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

A precedent embalms a principle.
Benjamin Disraeli

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Benjamin Disraeli

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Benjamin Disraeli

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Great countries are those that produce great people.
Benjamin Disraeli

Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
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Little things affect little minds.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
Benjamin Disraeli

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



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