Words matter. These are the best Golda Meir Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
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.
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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.
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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.
Even paranoids have real enemies.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.
