Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAuthority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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