Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charles de Gaulle
Age: 79 †
Born: 1890
Born: November 22
Died: 1970
Died: November 9
Former President Of The French Republic
Memoirist
Military Personnel
Military Theorist
Politician
Statesperson
Rijsel
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
General Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
Men
Greatness
Commitment
Success
Masculine
Inspirational
Heroic
Ever
Achieved
Without
Determination
Nothing
Determined
Great
Achievement
More quotes by Charles de Gaulle
I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
Charles de Gaulle
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
Charles de Gaulle
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
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
Charles de Gaulle
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)
Charles de Gaulle
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
Charles de Gaulle
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Charles de Gaulle
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was one cannot judge life until death.
Charles de Gaulle
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
Charles de Gaulle
I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
Charles de Gaulle
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
Charles de Gaulle
The future does not belong to men.
Charles de Gaulle
Long live free Quebec!
Charles de Gaulle
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
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
Charles de Gaulle
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges that's the way he shows his passion for equality
Charles de Gaulle
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
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
Charles de Gaulle
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
Charles de Gaulle
I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
Charles de Gaulle
