Benjamin Disraeli

Bekannte Zitate von Benjamin Disraeli

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.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

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

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

There is no education like adversity.

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.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.

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

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

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.

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

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

Great countries are those that produce great people.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

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

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

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

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.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

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

We cannot learn men from books.

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

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.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

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

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

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.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

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

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.