129 Quotes By Benjamin Disraeli


Duty cannot exist without faith.
Benjamin Disraeli on faith

Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli on fear

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Benjamin Disraeli on fear

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Benjamin Disraeli on fear

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Benjamin Disraeli on future

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli on future

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin Disraeli on god

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

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli on good

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli on government

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli on government

That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Benjamin Disraeli on government

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli on great

Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin Disraeli on great

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli on great

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli on great

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli on great

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Benjamin Disraeli on great

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli on great

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli on great