Top 38 Quotes by Golda Meir

Being seventy is not a sin.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

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

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

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

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 don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

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

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.