Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Time
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He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
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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.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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Beware of endeavouring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed: these are fearful odds.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
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But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day, and the race a life.
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.
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The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.
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His shortcoming is his long staying.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.