Golda Meir Quotes

Don't be so humble. You're not that great.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors...

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I ...

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are deali...

Don't be humble. You're not that great.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

I must govern the clock not be governed by it.

There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.

Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order ...

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeli...

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. ... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner res...

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it ...

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - we have no place to go.

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the ...

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I ...

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' ...

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I...