Never relinquish the initiative.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnly by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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