Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
All my successes have been built on my failures.
Benjamin Disraeli
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Benjamin Disraeli
Age: 76 †
Born: 1804
Born: December 21
Died: 1881
Died: April 19
Biographer
Former Leader Of The House Of Commons
Novelist
Politician
Writer
London
England
1st Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin
Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Earl of Beaconsfield
Benjamin
Earl of Beaconsfield
Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden Disraeli
Dizzy
Successes
Failures
Failure
Built
More quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
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
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
Benjamin Disraeli
Great countries are those that produce great people.
Benjamin Disraeli
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Benjamin Disraeli
Amusement to an observing mind is study.
Benjamin Disraeli
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Benjamin Disraeli
Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.
Benjamin Disraeli
And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.
Benjamin Disraeli
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
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
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
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
Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.
Benjamin Disraeli
Extreme views are never just something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.
Benjamin Disraeli
The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag but we ought not to be a tortoise.
Benjamin Disraeli
As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
Benjamin Disraeli
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli
