Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator ? — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far! — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Don't ask 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 Copy Share Image
“Have you ever seen a dictator on a run-off ballot? [Responding to the charges of a dictatorial bent, after being forced into a run-off… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
