110+ Benjamin Disraeli Quotes On Youth, Democracy And Political

British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli was a popular politician and writer who served two terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the late 19th century. He was the first and only British Prime Minister of Jewish descent. Disraeli was known for his strong leadership and his promotion of British imperialism. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Benjamin Disraeli on leadership, youth, democracy.

Top 10 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

1. Never complain and never explain.
2. Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
3. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
4. The most successful people in life are generally those who have the best information.
5. Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
6. Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
7. Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
8. One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
9. There is no education like adversity.
10. Finality is not the language of politics.

Benjamin Disraeli Image Quotes

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. — Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. — Benjamin Disraeli

There is no education like adversity. — Benjamin Disraeli

Finality is not the language of politics. — Benjamin Disraeli

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. — Benjamin Disraeli

Ignorance never settles a question. — Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli Short Quotes

• A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.
• Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
• Ignorance never settles a question.
• The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
• Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
• Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
• Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
• Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
• Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
• There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Leadership

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world. — Benjamin Disraeli

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? — Benjamin Disraeli

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow. — Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Youth

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. — Benjamin Disraeli

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. — Benjamin Disraeli

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. — Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is the trustee of prosperity. — 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. — Benjamin Disraeli

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth. — Benjamin Disraeli

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. — Benjamin Disraeli

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. — Benjamin Disraeli

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods. — Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Political

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

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. — Benjamin Disraeli

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them. — Benjamin Disraeli

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. — Benjamin Disraeli

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. — Benjamin Disraeli

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. — Benjamin Disraeli

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate. — Benjamin Disraeli

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. — Benjamin Disraeli

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. — Benjamin Disraeli

A majority is always better than the best repartee. — Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Life

Nurture your mind with great thoughts — Benjamin Disraeli

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. — Benjamin Disraeli

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance. — Benjamin Disraeli

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. — Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves. — Benjamin Disraeli

Life is too short to be little. — Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. — Benjamin Disraeli

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. — Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Politics

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages. — Benjamin Disraeli

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. — Benjamin Disraeli

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. — Benjamin Disraeli

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency. — Benjamin Disraeli

A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. — Benjamin Disraeli

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal. — Benjamin Disraeli

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete. — Benjamin Disraeli

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England. — Benjamin Disraeli

In politics, nothing is contemptible. — Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About People

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. — Benjamin Disraeli

Great countries are those that produce great people. — Benjamin Disraeli

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations. — Benjamin Disraeli

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. — Benjamin Disraeli

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. — Benjamin Disraeli

There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers. — Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About World

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

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. — Benjamin Disraeli

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. — Benjamin Disraeli

Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions. — 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 should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever. — Benjamin Disraeli

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. — Benjamin Disraeli

Quit the world, and the world forgets you. — Benjamin Disraeli

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble. — Benjamin Disraeli

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question. — Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Success

Success is the child of audacity. — Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is consistency of purpose. — Benjamin Disraeli

All my successes have been built on my failures. — Benjamin Disraeli

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. — Benjamin Disraeli

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. — Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes. — Benjamin Disraeli

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. — Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli Famous Quotes And Sayings

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. — Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. — Benjamin Disraeli

There is no education like adversity. — Benjamin Disraeli

Finality is not the language of politics. — 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

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. — Benjamin Disraeli

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. — Benjamin Disraeli

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. — Benjamin Disraeli

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. — Benjamin Disraeli

Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses. — Benjamin Disraeli

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. — Benjamin Disraeli

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. — Benjamin Disraeli

If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality. — Benjamin Disraeli

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. — Benjamin Disraeli

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. — Benjamin Disraeli

Never take anything for granted. — Benjamin Disraeli

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. — Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. — Benjamin Disraeli

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. — Benjamin Disraeli

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. — Benjamin Disraeli

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen. — Benjamin Disraeli

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. — Benjamin Disraeli

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. — Benjamin Disraeli

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. — Benjamin Disraeli

Little things affect little minds. — Benjamin Disraeli

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

Everything comes if a man will only wait. — Benjamin Disraeli

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. — Benjamin Disraeli

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. — Benjamin Disraeli

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation. — Benjamin Disraeli

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. — Benjamin Disraeli

There is no wisdom like frankness. — Benjamin Disraeli

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense. — Benjamin Disraeli

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

Silence is the mother of truth. — Benjamin Disraeli

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. — Benjamin Disraeli

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. — Benjamin Disraeli

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation. — Benjamin Disraeli

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. — Benjamin Disraeli

Great men never require experience. — Benjamin Disraeli

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. — Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds. — Benjamin Disraeli

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. — Benjamin Disraeli

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. — Benjamin Disraeli

Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions. — Benjamin Disraeli

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability. — Benjamin Disraeli

Despair is the conclusion of fools. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. — Benjamin Disraeli

What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. — Benjamin Disraeli

The gondola of London [a hansom]. — Benjamin Disraeli

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity. — Benjamin Disraeli

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. — Benjamin Disraeli

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. — 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

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement. — Benjamin Disraeli

Travel teaches tolerance. — Benjamin Disraeli

There can be economy only where there is efficiency. — Benjamin Disraeli

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. — Benjamin Disraeli

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice. — Benjamin Disraeli

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. — Benjamin Disraeli

No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout. — Benjamin Disraeli

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power. — Benjamin Disraeli

To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. — Benjamin Disraeli

Life Lessons by Benjamin Disraeli

1. Benjamin Disraeli taught the importance of hard work and perseverance, as he rose from a relatively humble background to become one of the most influential figures in British history.
2. He also emphasized the importance of integrity, as he was known for his unwavering commitment to his beliefs and principles.
3. Lastly, Disraeli taught the value of resilience and optimism, as he overcame many obstacles and setbacks to become one of the most successful prime ministers of his time.