Charles de Gaulle famous quotes

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Men #Action #Deliberation

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Food #Two #Cheese

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Change #Leadership #Gnarly

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Life #Politics #Matter

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Power #Silence #Weapons

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Freedom #Order #Greed

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Opponents #Way #Hardest

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Leadership #Death #Witty

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Hate #Integrity #Patriotic

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

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Country #Silly #Stupid People

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Greatness

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Funny Love #Dog #Men

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Sacrifice #Humanity #Heroism

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

#Men #Liberty #Doe

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Men #History #Temptation

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Country #Blue #Cheesy

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Country #Diversity #Political

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.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Church #Answers #Favors

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#History #Action #Function

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Hate #Giving #Soul

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Strong #Silence #Shelter

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Character #Men #Realizing

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Anger #Political #Politics

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

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Trust #Witty #Freedom

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Inspirational #Success #Determination

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Athlete #Destiny #Giving

France cannot be France without greatness.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Greatness #France

Old age is a shipwreck.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Birthday #Age #Aging

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

Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Full Potential #Realizing #Difficulty

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Inspirational #Funny #Thinking