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.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnly by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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