10 Words of Wisdom from a Very Very Smart Lady

Margaret Thatcher

Vulnerability
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside where it functions best."

Independence
"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."

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

Perseverance
"I have a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves."

Work

"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."

Integrity

"Of course, it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."

Rights
 "There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation."
  
Society
"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families."

Discipline
"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."

Freedom
"We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of nothing; we have not had to pay for it with our lives. But it would be a grave mistake to think that freedom requires nothing of us. Each of us has to earn freedom anew in order to possess it. We do so not just for our own sake, but for the sake of our children, so that they may build a better future that will sustain over the world the responsibilities and blessings of freedom."