Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.Collection: Positive
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.Collection: Perseverance
There is no waste of time like making excuses.Collection: Waste
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.Collection: War
People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.Collection: Adversity
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.Collection: Honesty
Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.Collection: Happiness
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.Collection: Life
Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.Collection: Two
Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.Collection: Truth
There is no diplomacy like silence.Collection: Silence
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.Collection: Philosophy
He who gains time gains everything.Collection: Inspirational
Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.Collection: Mistake
Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.Collection: Money
Great men never require experience.Collection: Men
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.Collection: Public Opinion
Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.Collection: Mother
Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.Collection: Defeat
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.Collection: People
I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.Collection: Two Nations
In politics, nothing is contemptible.Collection: Political
Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.Collection: Clever
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.Collection: Passion
Life is too short to be little.Collection: Inspirational
We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.Collection: Passion
When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.Collection: Men
The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.Collection: Differences
Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.Collection: Inspirational
Difficulties melt away under tact.Collection: Difficulty
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.Collection: Wisdom
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.Collection: Criticism
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.Collection: Writing
For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.Collection: Country
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.Collection: Principles
"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.Collection: Sorry
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.Collection: Two
The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.Collection: Believe
One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.Collection: Events
I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.Collection: Wine
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.Collection: Community
Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.Collection: Disappointment
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.Collection: Peace
An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.Collection: Style
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.Collection: Love
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.Collection: Country
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.Collection: Errors