A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
GOLDA MEIRMy dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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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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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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 say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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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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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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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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