Inspirational Benjamin Disraeli Quotes For Success In Life

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

1. “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
2. “Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
3. “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
4. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
5. “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

6. “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

7. “The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
8. “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
9. “Never take anything for granted.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
10. “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
11. “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
12. “Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

13. “Never complain and never explain.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

14. “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
15. “There is no education like adversity.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
16. “As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
17. “All my successes have been built on my failures.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
18. “The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
19. “Everything comes if a man will only wait.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
20. “We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
21. “Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses – half the cabinet are not asses.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
22. “When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

23. “The fool wonders, the wise man asks.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

24. “Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
25. “Ignorance never settles a question.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
26. “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
27. “If you don’t believe in magic, then you can’t believe in reality.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
28. “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
29. “Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

30. “The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

31. “Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
32. “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
33. “I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
34. “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

35. “Sir, I shall not defeat you – I shall transcend you.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

36. “The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
37. “Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
38. “How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
39. “Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
40. “To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
41. “Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
42. “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

43. “He who gains time gains everything.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

44. “A precedent embalms a principle.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
45. “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
46. “I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
47. “There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
48. “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

49. “To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

50. “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
51. “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
52. “Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
53. “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
54. “Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
55. “The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

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