Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
FulfillmentCourageAuthenticityPassionIntegrity Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
CriticismAccuracyUnderstandingClarityDiscipline How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
PerfectionMoral IntegrityIdealismReputationCharacter William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
ReadinessOpportunityPreparationTiming The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
ExpectationSurpriseUnpredictabilityPreparedness What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
OpportunityImpactProactivity We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
FlatteryStrategyPower Dynamics Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Great ThoughtsBeliefHeroismMindset Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Social JusticeInterdependenceStabilityGovernance The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
AdaptabilityCommunication StylesDualityCareer Focus A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
TruthBeliefDeceptionSincerity What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
LiteratureDiscernmentTruth Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Foreign AffairsNational IdentityIndifferencePerception The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
IgnoranceLimited KnowledgeMistakeHumilitySelf-awareness He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
WorryPowerHealthMind 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.
SecurityCivilizationProper DwellingBeautyHuman Progress The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Emotional Well-beingRelationshipStressResilienceSelf-care It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
ActionHappinessMotivation Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
FortuneResilienceRelativity of Events The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
KnowledgePowerWisdom The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
AuthenticityEmotionCourageTruthIntegrity Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
LearningExperienceKnowledge Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Limitations Of Human UnderstandingHigher Truths Or Divine WisdomBelief Systems Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Self-controlResponsibilityPersonal Agency Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Emotional Well-beingSocial BehaviorSelf-RespectDiscretion If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
PowerInfluenceVulnerabilityControlSelf-Perception The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
WealthEleganceTrue ValueInner Beauty Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
PurposeDeterminationWillpowerPerseveranceAccomplishment I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.