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Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw

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

- Charles de Gaulle | Action Quotes

Before such a prodigious career, judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

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How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?

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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

- Charles de Gaulle | Greatness Quotes

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him, indeed they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

- Charles de Gaulle | Greatness Quotes

I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.

- Charles de Gaulle | Human Relations Quotes

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 | Leaders and Leadership Quotes

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

- Charles de Gaulle | Leaders and Leadership Quotes

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

- Charles de Gaulle | Politicians Quotes

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

- Charles de Gaulle | Politics Quotes

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.

- Charles de Gaulle | Politics Quotes

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

- Charles de Gaulle | Politics Quotes

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

- Charles de Gaulle | Progress Quotes

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.

- Charles de Gaulle | Tact and Diplomacy Quotes

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.

- Charles de Gaulle | Self-Reliance Quotes

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

- Charles de Gaulle | Possessions Quotes

How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

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