"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."
- Charles de Gaulle
Love
"“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”"
- Charles de Gaulle
Belief
"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."
- Charles de Gaulle
Compassion
"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."
- Charles de Gaulle
Reflection
"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"
- Charles de Gaulle
Philosophy
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity