Quotes from Golda Meir

The only alternative to war is peace, and the only road to peace is negotiations.

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

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

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

It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance.

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!

Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

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

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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.