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Get mad, then get over it.
Written by Colin Powell
Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Written by Colin Powell
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Written by Colin Powell
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Written by Colin Powell
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
Written by Colin Powell
Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
Written by Colin Powell
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Written by Colin Powell
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Written by Colin Powell
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Written by Colin Powell
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
Written by Colin Powell
I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
Written by Colin Powell
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Written by Colin Powell
Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
Written by Colin Powell
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
Written by Colin Powell
Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
Written by Colin Powell
I try to be the same person I was yesterday.
Written by Colin Powell
Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
Written by Colin Powell
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Written by Colin Powell
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
Written by Colin Powell
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
Written by Colin Powell
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Written by Colin Powell
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Written by Colin Powell
Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
Written by Colin Powell
It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
Written by Colin Powell
The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
Written by Colin Powell
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
Written by Colin Powell
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Written by Colin Powell
Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
Written by Colin Powell
Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
Written by Colin Powell
Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
Written by Colin Powell

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