Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
GOLDA MEIRYou’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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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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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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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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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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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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