Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIRTrust 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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 modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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