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.

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

Palestinians will only have peace with the Israelis when they love their children more than they hate us.

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

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

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

Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.

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!

You can’t improve on saying nothing.

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.

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

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