“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
“Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.”
“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.”
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”
“Success is the child of audacity.”
“The most successful people in life are generally those who have the best information.”
“A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.”
“It is easier to be critical than correct.”
“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”
“A man who forgets his past is a man without a future.”
“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.”
“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.”
“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”
“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”
“There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.”
“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”
“Ignorance never settles a question.”
“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.”
“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”
“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and its only end.”
“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”
“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.”
“Beware of enthusiasts; they are generally impetuous and wrong.”
“There is no education like adversity.”
“There is no wealth but life.”
“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”
“What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.”
“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”
“A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.”
“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
“There is moderation in everything.”
“A precedent embalms a principle.”
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”
“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”
“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”
“Nothing can resist a human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.”
“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”
“The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.”
“We make our fortunes and we call them fate.”
“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”
“Power has only one duty—to secure the social welfare of the People.”
“A majority is always better than the best repartee.”
“Never complain and never explain.”
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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes :
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
“The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.”
“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”
“The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity.”
“He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”
“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.”
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”