It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Reason, Greatness & Great Things, Greatness
Something will turn up.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Faith, Belief
Success is the child of audacity.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Success, Success & Failure
We are all born for love… . It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Existence, Romance, Love
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
There is no wisdom like frankness.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Candor, Truth
Characters do not change. – Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Character
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Purpose, Determination
The greatest secret of success in life is for a person to be ready when their opportunity comes.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Strength, Opportunity, Secrets of Success, Opportunities
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Destiny, One liners
I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Gratitude
There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Economy
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Time, The Present, Time Management
Marriage is the greatest earthly happiness when founded on complete sympathy.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Marriage
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: The Future, Tomorrow, Greatness, Anxiety, Fear
Travel teaches tolerance.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Travel, Tolerance
I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Perseverance, Success
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Friendship
There is no education like adversity.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Education, Adversity, Challenges, Difficulties
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
It is the lot of man to suffer.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Suffering
Luck is what a capricious man believes in.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Fortune, Luck
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Civilization, Leisure
Duty cannot exist without faith.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Duty
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Expectation, Anticipation
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
—Benjamin Disraeli
The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Age, Disappointment, Failure
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Criticism, Art, Critics
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Wisdom
We moralize among ruins.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Morals, Morality
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