Charles de Gaulle Quotes

Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

If You are mighty, gain respect through knowledge and gentleness of speech. Do not command except as is fitting.

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

You are most powerful when you are most silent.

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

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.

A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

Knowledge is only potential power.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.