It pays to know the enemy — not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
—Margaret Thatcher
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Commitment, Dedication
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
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
Topics: Hard Work, Success, Work
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
Topics: Achievement, Success & Failure
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
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
—Margaret Thatcher
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.
—Margaret Thatcher
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions. He had money as well.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Intentions, Purpose
You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Deception/Lying, Lies
In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Action
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
Topics: Leaders, Leadership
If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
—Margaret Thatcher
Home is where you come to when you have nothing better to do.
—Margaret Thatcher
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
—Margaret Thatcher
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Fashion
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