Golda Meir Quotes

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

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

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.

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

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

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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