Colin Powell Famous Quotes



"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it."

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."


Colin Powell Quotations






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"There's often no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whether it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come"
Zig Ziglar

"We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know."
W H Auden

Respect yourself and others will respect you.
Confucius

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Aesop

"Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that."
Barbara Bush

"What's up, Doc"
Tex Avery

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this And radio operates exactly the same way you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
Albert Einstein

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Kierkegaard

"Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion."
Joseph Alsop

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."
La Bruyere