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.
GOLDA MEIRShow 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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