Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

Life is to short to be small.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

As for our majority... one is enough.

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.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Never take anything for granted.

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

Change is constant in a progressive country.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.