Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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About Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer 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 Conser…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Benjamin DisraeliOne secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
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.
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.
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
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.
There is no gambling like politics.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Finality is not the language of politics.
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.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Never complain and never explain.
We cannot learn men from books.