Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
GOLDA MEIRWe will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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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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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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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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