Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was a British politician of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or “Tory democracy”. He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is the only British prime minister to have been of Jewish birth. He was also a novelist; publishing works of fiction even as prime minister.
Some of the best quotes from Benjamin Disraeli are listed below.
- “A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “A man’s fate is his own temper.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “All must respect those who respect themselves.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “All my successes have been built on my failures.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Be thine own privy counsellor.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Great men never require experience.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Having the courage to live within one’s means is respectability.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Little things affect little minds.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Luck is what a capricious man believes in.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Never complain and never explain.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Never take anything for granted.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “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.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Sir, I shall not defeat you – I shall transcend you.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Success is the child of audacity.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “The fool wonders, the wise man asks.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “There is no education like adversity.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “There is no waste of time like making excuses.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “We make our fortunes and we call them fate.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.” – Benjamin Disraeli
