You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELICourage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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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.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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