Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnly by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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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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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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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