263 Quotes by Shimon Peres

To find a cause that’s larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.

If you have more dreams than achievements-you’re young.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact – not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

Whoever of you love life and desire to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies. Seek peace and pursue it.

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don’t trust the third one – the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.

It’s better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

I don’t think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don’t believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.

Leading the Jewish people is not easy – we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.

You’re as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar.