I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
CHARLES DE GAULLETo govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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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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