I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Benjamin Disraeli
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Never complain and never explain.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Justice is truth in action.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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.
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
There is no education like adversity.
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
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.
Little things affect little minds.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Never take anything for granted.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Silence is the mother of truth.
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Success is the child of audacity.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
