black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Related Topics

Beyond Circumstance Conduct Control Human Own Power

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Agent Circumstance Creature Free Man More Powerful
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Conscious Fact Great Ignorant Knowledge Step
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Gladness Man Nature Sometimes Weap
A precedent embalms a principle.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Embalm Precedent Principle
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Done Must Party Person Thing Tool Use
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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Act Boldy Deeply Express Feel Frank Himself Life Little Main Manly never Short Too
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Enthusiasm Every Production Genius
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Bullying Courage Fire Smoke
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Apologize Do Feel Show Truth
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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Business Introduction Liberalism Objection Party Philosophy Political Practical Principal
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Born End Existence Love Only Principle
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Away Bath Caught Cloth Gentlemen Honourable Right Walk
In politics nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Contemptible Nothing Politics
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Act Capable Honor Meanness Party Political Tracker
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Always Contrary Earn More Often True Truth
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Damned Kind Lie Statistic There

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes