9 Charles de Gaulle Quotes on Leadership

Charles de Gaulle quotes on leadership

1. All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

9. 'A foreign military leader whose daring was feared by those who profited by it.' De Gaulle said that MacArthur's critics should 'pay deserved tribute to the legendary service of a great soldier'.

10. I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.

11. Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

15. Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

19. Nothing great is done without great men, and they are great because they wanted it.

22. Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

26. The leader is always alone before bad fates.

37. To General Jacques Massu : Alors Massu, toujours aussi con ? (So, Massu, still that stupid?)