Margaret Thatcher Quotes

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher

Power, Powerful, Tell

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher

Politics, End, Patient

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher

Success, Work, Hard

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher

Home, Woman, Country

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Margaret Thatcher

History, Good, Best

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Margaret Thatcher

Yourself, Important, Pride

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher

Political, Single, Means

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher

History, Find, Try

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher

Woman, Done, Said

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher

Time, Nothing, Compromise

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
Margaret Thatcher

Values, Process, Seems

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher

Power, Tell, Lady

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher

Work, Hard, Pretty

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret Thatcher

History, Dangerous, Less

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher

History, Philosophy, America

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Margaret Thatcher

Liberty, Economic, Unless

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher

Trying, Socialism, Disease

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatcher

Men, Change, Mind

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

Fight, May, Battle

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher

Good, Money, Remember

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
Margaret Thatcher

Love, Job, Anyone

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Margaret Thatcher

Money, Love, Wrong

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
Margaret Thatcher

Good, Strong, Bad

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher

Time, Nothing, Compromise

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
Margaret Thatcher

Seem, Air, Smell

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Leader

Born: October 13, 1925

Died: April 8, 2013

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