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.
GOLDA MEIRThose that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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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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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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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 must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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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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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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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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