Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
GOLDA MEIRI must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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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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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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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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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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