Exertion Quote by Charles de Gaulle Download Open image “In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.” — Charles de Gaulle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exertion Military Paid Policy Risk War
One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“war is not so to be avoided, but is only deferred to your disadvantage” — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff. — Steve Rushin 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
“It is not the actual, physical exertion that counts towards one’s progress, not the nature of the task but by the spirit of faith… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“He was dangerous. And difficult. And he was all mine. Sometimes in the morning, when he worked in the gym one floor below, I’d… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Nowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one… — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
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