Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
Click on the picture of Benjamin Disraeli quote you want to see a larger version.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Click on the picture of Benjamin Disraeli quote you want to see a larger version.
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
- Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
- I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
- Fear makes us feel our humanity.
- The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
- Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
- A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
- My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
- A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
- A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
- Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Best Quotes
- Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
- Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
- A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
- Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
- When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.
- Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
- I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
- I did get a degree in special education.