We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
GOLDA MEIRTrust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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 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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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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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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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