Inspirational Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Sincerity, Candor, Truth, Honesty

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

Little things affect little minds.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Attitude, Mediocrity

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

Marriage is the greatest earthly happiness when founded on complete sympathy.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Marriage

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

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Wisdom

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
Topics: Purpose, Determination, Commitment, Risk, Willpower, Dedication, Perseverance

Life is too short to be small.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Birthdays, Life, Love

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

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Memory

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

There is no wisdom like frankness.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Candor, Truth

I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Gratitude

Change is inevitable…Change is constant.
—Benjamin Disraeli

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Law, Lawyers

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

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

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

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

Something will turn up.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Belief, Faith

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

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

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

Life is too shot to be small
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Life

We are all born for love… . It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Topics: Existence, Romance, Love

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

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

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

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

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