A Quote by Charles de Gaulle

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Charles de Gaulle

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Charles de Gaulle
French - Leader
November 22, 1890 - November 9, 1970

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

Martin O'Malley

Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.

Ronald Reagan

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

Hannah Arendt

Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

Hugo Grotius

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it.

Sandra Bullock

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

Jacqueline Carey

All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern architecture, whether the building be made of wood, stone, iron or concrete; just as the principles of harmony govern music of whatever kind. It is still necessary, then, to establish the principles of war.

Ferdinand Foch

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Nigel Lawson

Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.

John F. Kennedy

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Henry Ward Beecher

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.

Richard Lamm

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!