11 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Time

Benjamin Disraeli quotes on time

27. He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

39. I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

75. Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

85. Beware of endeavouring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed: these are fearful odds.

95. Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.

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

157. Everything comes if a man will only wait.

180. The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

196. His shortcoming is his long staying.

234. We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

239. Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.