Quote #172

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 that will stake even existence for its fulfilment.

More from Benjamin Disraeli

  1. Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
  2. The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
  3. Nothing is going on, but everybody is afraid of something.
  4. As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
  5. Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
  6. An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
  7. 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…
  8. The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

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