You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
GOLDA MEIRBeing seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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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 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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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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 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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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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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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