My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
GOLDA MEIRNot being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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