Benjamin D
israeli was a British Conservative politician, writer and aristocrat who twice served as Prime Minister.
Born: December 21, 1804,United Kingdom
Died: April 19, 1881,United Kingdom
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Never complain and never explain.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Silence is the mother of truth.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
There is no wisdom like frankness.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Little things affect little minds.
A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.
Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Seeing much, suffering much and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Characters never change. Opinions alter; characters are only developed.
I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.
Life is too short to be little.
Success is the child of audacity.
Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
A university should be a place of light, of liberty and of learning.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Never take anything for granted.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Justice is truth in action.
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
