Top 38 Quotes by Golda Meir

Being seventy is not a sin.

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.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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