Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAdversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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These people really aim very badly.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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