Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOld age is a shipwreck.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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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 Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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