Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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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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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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