Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
CHARLES DE GAULLEGenius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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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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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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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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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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