Motivational Golda Meir quotes

It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
- Golda Meir

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.
- Golda Meir

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.
- Golda Meir

There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
- Golda Meir

Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom.
- Golda Meir

To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man.
- Golda Meir

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

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

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

You can't improve on saying nothing.
- Golda Meir

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

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
- Golda Meir

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
- Golda Meir

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

Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
- Golda Meir

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.
- Golda Meir

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

I prefer to stay alive and be criticized than be sympathized.
- Golda Meir

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like détente when there’s a good English phrase for it — cold war.
- Golda Meir

This world of ours was not created to be the testing ground for the perfection of weapons to wipe us out .
- Golda Meir

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
- Golda Meir