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Inspirational Quotations

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Inspirational Quotations by Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher (British Head of State)

Margaret Hilda Thatcher (b.1925,) Baroness Thatcher, LG OM PC FRS, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and is the only woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the “Iron Lady”, a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism.

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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

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
—Margaret Thatcher

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 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: Work

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

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

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

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