It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIRTrust 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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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 no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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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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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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