Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Life

18 quotes

  1. Never take anything for granted.

  2. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

  3. I am prepared for the worst, but hope the best.

  4. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

  5. Fear makes us feel our humanity.

  6. Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

  7. The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.

  8. Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.

  9. Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

  10. But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day, and the race a life.

  11. We all of us live too much in a circle.

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

  13. Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

  14. Life is too short to be small.

  15. Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

  16. Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

  17. One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

  18. The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

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