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To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

Benjamin Disraeli
Stronger, Want, Achieve

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

Benjamin Disraeli
Christian, Religious, Taken

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Benjamin Disraeli
Success, Education, Intelligent
Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Benjamin Disraeli
Anxiety, Life Is, Unnecessary
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3846, Delphi Classics

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Benjamin Disraeli
Wise, Wisdom, Intelligent
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5029, Delphi Classics

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli
Positive Thinking, Criticism, Politics
Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.24, Gerald Duckworth & Co

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Benjamin Disraeli
Intelligent, Power, Hypnosis

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

Benjamin Disraeli
Wisdom, Luck, Familiar

If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

Benjamin Disraeli
Meaningful, Believe, Reality

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli
Motivational, Happiness, Success
Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Cottages, Safe
Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.11, Gerald Duckworth & Co

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

Benjamin Disraeli
Failure, Political, Politics
"Henrietta Temple, by the Author of 'Vivian Grey'".

Nurture your mind with great thoughts

Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness, Hero, Inspiration
Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.111, London : H. Colburn

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Benjamin Disraeli
Communication, Humor, Intelligent
"Benjamin Disraeli: An Unconventional Biography". Book by Wilfrid Meynell, 1903.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Benjamin Disraeli
Men, Behinds, Nations

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli
Funny, Truth, Communication
Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Contarini Fleming, v. 2. Count Alarcos. Popanilla”

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Benjamin Disraeli
Education, School, Government
Speech in the House of Commons, June 15, 1874.

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

Benjamin Disraeli
Islands, Justice, Diversity
Benjamin Disraeli's remarks during Disraeli-O'Connell debate in Parliament, www.victorianweb.org. 1835.

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

Benjamin Disraeli
Inspirational, Life, Creativity

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

Benjamin Disraeli
Inspirational, Motivational, Change

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Benjamin Disraeli
Government, Hypocrisy, Political
'Hansard' 17 March 1845, col. 1028. Bagehot, quoting Disraeli in 'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The House of Lords', elaborated on the theme with the words 'so much did the ideas of its "head" differ from the sensations of its "tail".'

All my successes have been built on my failures.

Benjamin Disraeli
Failure, Failure Inspirational, Built

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli
Attention, Purpose, Products

Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Southern Italy, Advice

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

Benjamin Disraeli
Writing, Way, Subjects