Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
GOLDA MEIRI never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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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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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.
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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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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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