Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
GOLDA MEIRIf 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.
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 can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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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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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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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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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Show 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.
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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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