“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”

— Benjamin Disraeli, Contarini Fleming (1832), Part IV

About Benjamin Disraeli

1804 – 1881

British statesman, twice Prime Minister, and novelist.

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.”

“Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.”

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”