Top 450 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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2. “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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3. “I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

4. “The secret to success is constancy of purpose.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

5. “Never take anything for granted.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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6. “As a rule, man is a fool. When it’s hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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7. “Justice is truth in action.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

8. “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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9. “Little things affect little minds.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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10. “Never complain and never explain.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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11. “There are three types of lies – lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

14. “Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

15. “The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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16. “Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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18. “We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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19. “Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

20. “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

21. “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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22. “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

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23. “The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”

— Benjamin Disraeli

24. “There is no education like adversity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

25. “The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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26. “Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

27. “Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

28. “Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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29. “When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

30. “Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

31. “Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

33. “Success is the child of audacity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

34. “Silence is the mother of truth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

37. “How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

38. “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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39. “A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

40. “There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

41. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

42. “Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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43. “The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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44. “Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

45. “Man is only great when he acts from passion.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

46. “If you don’t believe in magic, then you can’t believe in reality.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

47. “Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

48. “Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

50. “Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.”

— Benjamin Disraeli