Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli Quotations
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
It is easier to be critical than correct.
What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Success is the child of audacity.
Little things affect little minds.
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
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.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.
We make our fortunes and call them fate.
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
Ignorance never settles a question.
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think...
It is well-known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
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.
No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Never complain and never explain.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator.
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.