Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

34 quotes

As a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, Margaret Thatcher brought a distinctive perspective that shines through in every quotation. Their reputation for Thatcherism lends every quote an extra layer of authority. Our collection holds 45 quotes from Margaret Thatcher, each offering a different angle on Time, Politics, History, Good, and Work. As Margaret Thatcher put it: "I owe nothing to Women's Lib."

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

— Margaret Thatcher

History

All Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

“No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.”

— Margaret Thatcher

Time

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

— Margaret Thatcher

Home

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

— Margaret Thatcher

Love

“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.”

— Margaret Thatcher

Good

“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”

— Margaret Thatcher

History

“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

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

— Margaret Thatcher

Power

“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

“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

“I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.”

— Margaret Thatcher

Home

“It's a funny old world.”

— Margaret Thatcher

Funny

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

— Margaret Thatcher

History

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

— Margaret Thatcher

Power

“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”

— Margaret Thatcher

Politics

“I owe nothing to Women's Lib.”

— Margaret Thatcher

Women

“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

“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.”

— Margaret Thatcher

Work

“I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.”

— Margaret Thatcher

Patience

“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

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

— Margaret Thatcher

Best