Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Konstantinos Karamanlis

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Greek politician Konstantinos Karamanlis.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Konstantinos Karamanlis

Konstantinos G. Karamanlis, commonly anglicised to Constantine Karamanlis or just Caramanlis, was a four-time prime minister and twice President of the Third Hellenic Republic, and a towering figure of Greek politics, whose political career spanned much of the latter half of the 20th century.

Irrespective of its size, Greece, with its intellectual heritage and the brilliance of Hellenism, together with the liveliness of its people, can contribute politically, morally and culturally to the realisation of the idea of a united Europe.
You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of. — © Konstantinos Karamanlis
You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
I invite all those who share my anxiety about, and hopes for, the future, and who burn with the desire for a political rebirth, to enlist with us. And addressing myself especially to the young, I invite them to become the vanguard in this sortie of national reconstruction. For a proud and happy Greece!
People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.
We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.
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