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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Life

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

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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.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Success

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

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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.

Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

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King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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Success is the child of audacity.

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More Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Benjamin Disraeli

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

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.

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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

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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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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

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

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

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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

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

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

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

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

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

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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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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

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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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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

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

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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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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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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

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

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

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The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

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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.

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

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Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

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To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

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

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

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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

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

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Browse 156 quotes attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, listed in the source data as a British Statesman, organized around themes such as Life, Success, Honesty. Use the topic links to explore similar quotes, or browse the full author collection in one place.