Best Golda Meir Quotes
- You can't improve on saying nothing. Improve
- I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young. Anybody
- If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have… Alive
- One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very… Arab
- Zionism and pessimism are not compatible. Compatible
- Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well… Likes
- Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else? Children
- Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves. Chambers
- It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to… Avoid
- 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… Acceptance
- Don't be humble... you're not that great. Great
- I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. Aging
- 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… Bring
- 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. Beautiful
- We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient. Acts
- Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. Aboard
- The dog that trots about finds a bone. Bone
- We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go. Arabs
- Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. Dream
- One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. Censorship
- To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. Better
- We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. Bloom
- 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… Egypt
- It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore. All
- 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… Average