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

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Source : Quoted in Israel and Mary Shenker, As Good as Golda: The Warmth and Wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister (1970)

Golda Meir

#Leadership Quotes #Reality Quotes #Battle Quotes

“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”
“You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.”
“It's just the way we've chosen to deal with it. What's there to talk about The reality is that we're undermanned in a lot of areas. We're in the best league in the country. We don't have to read the paper to know that all the teams we play are quality teams.”
“I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.”

Source : Jude Deveraux (2004). “Counterfeit Lady”, p.293, Simon and Schuster
“Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above them in your search for creative answers to problems. Imagination "stirs up the gift of God in thee." Through your imagination you touch and express the inspiration of the Infinite. Imagination, in the words of Shakespeare, "gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name." You reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, then you bring it down to earth and make it work.”
“Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.”
“With respect to teaching, I couldn't make sense of mainstream economics when I had to teach it to college students. At the same time, I could see at the school that there was a whole lot of hypocrisy. Not much real respect for the "higher learning."”
“Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.”

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