I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
GOLDA MEIRTo be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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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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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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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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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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