Charles de Gaulle Quotes - Page 2

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• You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Change, Leadership, Gnarly

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• When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Inspirational, Funny, Thinking

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• War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Crush, Peace, War

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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.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Reading, Book, Lambs

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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.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Government, Years, Gold

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• One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Death, Judging, Waiting

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• In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Freedom, Political Will, Order

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• At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Civilization, Roots, Leisure

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• Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Men, Action, Standing Alone

  Charles de Gaulle (1959). “War Memoirs”

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• The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Self, People, All Time

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• Never relinquish the initiative.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Initiative

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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.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Character

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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• You'll live. Only the best get killed.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Inspirational

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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!

  Charles de Gaulle

  Mean, Talking, Spite

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• Character is the virtue of hard times.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Character, Hard Times, Virtue

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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• Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Girl, Flower, Government

  "François Hollande 'will retain Franco-British defence ties' as president" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2012.

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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.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Judging, People, Leader

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• Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Full Potential, Realizing, Difficulty

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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.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Freedom, Men, Break Through

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• He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Funny, Laughter, Laughing

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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.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Leadership, Inspiration, Elements

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• Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Greatness

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• Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Men, Thinking, World

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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.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Business, Fall, Character

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• Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Fate, Europe

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