Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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The future does not belong to men.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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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 come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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