Isaac D'Israeli Quotes

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident, as to perpetuate their happiness.

Let no man glory in the greatness of his mind, but rather keep watch o'er his wits.

I've had a lot of great stuff - spectacular stuff - happen to me. I've got to not be a pig about life.

My parents always told me be confident but be humble at the same time.

People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people.

When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'