Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLENothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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The future does not belong to men.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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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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