Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Margaret Thatcher (British Head of State)

Margaret Hilda Thatcher (1925–2013,) also identified by the title Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, was a British Conservative stateswoman who served as Britain’s prime minister 1979–90. She is celebrated as one of the greatest and the most influential politicians in British history.

For more than a decade, Thatcher enjoyed almost unchallenged political mastery, winning three consecutive general elections. Nicknamed “The Iron Lady” as early as 1976, Thatcher became known for her willpower and her emphasis on individual responsibility and enterprise. Her time in office was marked by monetarist policies, privatization of nationalized industries, and legislation of trade unions. The direction she pursued with intense energy and steadfast will brought about a transformation of Britain’s economic performance.

In retirement, Thatcher became a member of the House of Lords in 1992 and raised funds for her Thatcher Foundation. She also wrote her best-selling memoirs, The Downing Street Years (1993) and The Path to Power (1995.)

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I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Agreement

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

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

This lady is not for turning.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Perseverance, Persistence

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

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Equality

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
Topics: Nation

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: America

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
Topics: Cheerfulness

I don’t mind how much my ministers talk—as long as they do what I say.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Conversation

The cocks may crow, but it’s the hen that lays the egg.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Power, Men, Nature, Women, Men and Women, Men & Women

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

Pennies don’t fall from heaven. They have to be earned on earth.
—Margaret Thatcher

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
Topics: Dissent, Opposition

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

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Dedication, Commitment

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species—it is the tigress and lioness in you—which tends to defend when attacked.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Women

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Action

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

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

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

Pennies do not come from heaven—they have to be earned here on earth.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Work, Luck

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Deception/Lying, Lies, Lying

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions. He had money as well.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Purpose, Intentions

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Truth

There are no personal sympathies in politics.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Politics

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Perseverance, Persistence

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Opportunity

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
Topics: Arguments

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