Top 38 Quotes by Golda Meir

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

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

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

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

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.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

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.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

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!