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Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

“The thing about a hero, is even when it doesnt look like theres a light at the end of the tunnel, hes going to keep digging, hes going to keep trying to do right and make up for whats gone before, just because thats who he is.”

“Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

“The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.”

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time”

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

“There is no education like adversity”

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”

“The more extensive a mans knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.”

“Never complain and never explain.”

“Life is too short to be small.”

“I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.”

“I am prepared for the worst but hope for the best”

“Be amusing, never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.”

“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”

“Youve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. Its called perseverance.”

“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”

“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.”

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

“Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.”

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.