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 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

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

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: Success & Failure, Achievement

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques…noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism…and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Communication

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

I love being at the center of things.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Power

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

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: Leadership, Leaders

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

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
—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, Success, Hard Work

Consensus seems to be the process for abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies.
—Margaret Thatcher

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

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: Persistence, Perseverance

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

I shan’t be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Power

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

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

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
Topics: Agreement

People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there’s no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Society, Government

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

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

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

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

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

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

Home is where you come to when you have nothing better to do.
—Margaret Thatcher

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

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.
—Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Criticism

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

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