Golda Meir Quotes

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 so humble. You're not that great.

I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.

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.

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.

I must govern the clock not be governed by it.

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

There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!

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 that I'm not what I'd like to be.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!