You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
- 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.
- I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
- The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
- Duty cannot exist without faith.
- Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
- The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
- It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
- Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
- Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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- Our whole society is instantaneous.
- Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
- We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
- I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
- For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
- Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.