Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnce upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
-
-
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE