You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
MARGARET THATCHERIf you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and would achieve nothing.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
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Of course, it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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Nazism (National Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.
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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?
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If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and would achieve nothing.
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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Those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defense in favor of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.
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Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, somebody of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.
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Being Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd.
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It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
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