Golda Meir's Quotes

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

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

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.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

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.

Trust 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.

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

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

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

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

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

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

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

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

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