Inspirational Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Tomorrow, Fear, Anxiety, The Future, Greatness

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Heroes, Vision, Thinking, Thought

It is the lot of man to suffer.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Suffering

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
Topics: Life

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Learning, Dying, Wisdom

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Disappointment, Age, Failure

There is no education like adversity.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Adversity, Difficulties, Education, Challenges

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Expectation, Anticipation

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.
—Benjamin Disraeli

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Leisure, Civilization

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Adversity, Difficulties

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step in knowledge.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Learn, Knowledge, Wisdom, Ignorance

Having the courage to live within one’s means is respectability.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Respect

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Action, Inaction, Getting Going, Happiness, Procrastination, Act, Humankind

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Plagiarism, Perspective

The greatest secret of success in life is for a person to be ready when their opportunity comes.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Opportunities, Opportunity, Strength, Secrets of Success

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Economy

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

Fear makes us feel our humanity.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Fear, Anxiety

Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Worry

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
—Benjamin Disraeli

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Friendship

Justice is truth in action.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Justice, Truth

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

Characters do not change. – Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Character

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Money

Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Change

Success is the child of audacity.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Success, Success & Failure

Everything comes if a man will only wait.
—Benjamin Disraeli

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Experience

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