Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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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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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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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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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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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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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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