Motivational Benjamin Disraeli Quotes And Sayings

Benjamin Disraeli Quotes:- Benjamin Disraeli (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) 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.

Inspirational Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

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.
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Inspirational Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears do not give advantage to the danger.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Famous quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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Greatest Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
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The very phrase ‘foreign affairs’ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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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.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Best Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

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.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
Benjamin Disraeli

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.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Everyone likes flattery and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Powerful Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and, ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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